Early this morning I got a secret email, and I did a happy dance. While I was shopping at Wal-Mart I got a phone call,
I spent most of my young adulthood as a vegetarian (a life-stage which ended after marriage to a carnivore; you just cannot force that kind
In case you are still needing some inspiration for Lent, here are some ideas you could find interesting. Lent isn’t only (or even mainly) about
A few weeks ago, I was reading an excerpt about how a man chose to serve as a missionary on a college campus following graduation.
Some years ago, I joined a group of friends in their college dorm lounge to enjoy a movie. While we watched the movie, I overheard
I feel truly blessed by God to be on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that spans nearly ten weeks. The pilgrimage has afforded me
We live in a modern world. We are often blinded by distractions and every now and then we need to be reminded of things that
Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has engaged the youth and young adults of the Church, speaking directly to them numerous times, and encouraging them to
The article is a response to another column on Ignitum Today, “Charismatics in Context,” originally published on January 30th by Matthew Olson. I have to
Need something to do for lent? How about these FREE activities. Some are from the best Catholic Universities and Colleges, others are for you and
Even the most devout Catholics have to drag themselves to mass on some days. What should we do when attending mass seems more like a
As Lent approaches, everyone is asking their kids, and deciding for themselves, “What are you going to ‘give up’ for Lent?” Why am I putting
Don Miller is a prominent Evangelical Christian writer. And he doesn’t go to church much… at all. But wait, I hear you saying, don’t all Christians
For those of us in the cold-weather states, and even for many of you in the traditionally warm-weather areas of the United States, this winter
When then Cardinal Wojtyla arrived at the Second Vatican Council, he had one question. What happened? Up until the 20th century, mankind was trekking along
In my last article I talked about a personal revelation from God dealing with the Eucharist. I mentioned that while, at the time, I understood
The Super Bowl has become an enormous event in the United States. The parties, the media coverage, the commercials, and the analysis of the football
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be
Forgive the (now somewhat dated) reference to the 80s movie, Romancing the Stone. In his latest book, Fr. Dwight Longenecker seeks to romance something even more
This topic is one that has been the subject of much reflection for me over the past several months after having read Chiara Lubich’s “Mary,
How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really ‘lived’? We live in a marketing led world – a place
