The episode from the gospel today has always been one of my favorites. I have always pictured the mother of James and John as being
It has become harder and harder to keep track of the places to #prayfor with so much violence occurring all over the world within a
The moment we arrived at the imposing gate on the sidewalk and started to climb the flights of concrete steps, we could tell this wasn’t
Don’t we all long to see God? Yet, so much of the time, He remains largely invisible to us. How does He reveal Himself in
You may not be able to create life, but you can almost always save one. If you say yes.
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Maria Goretti, the Little Saint of Great Mercy. Her story reminds us that we are never beyond hope,
This is a post about a Spanish Jesuit priest, who, according to his superior, “is a mediocre preacher and hears confessions and is fit for
I tend to obsess over certain things or situations. I spent a day at Cedar Point a couple weeks ago. Around lunchtime, I stepped into
The Theological Virtue of Hope helps us to see that we are not made for this world and our true home is waiting for us
Since St. Therese of Lisieux is a favorite of mine (and is a Doctor of the Church for a reason!), I thought it would be
I don’t know what to make of these Conjugal visits of ours, Whether they make things better Or worse between us. I have suffered more
(This post originally appeared on www.yellowpelican.net) It started with an episode of the Magic School Bus and ended with a trip to Urgent Care. Last
In an apologetics course I am taking this semester, we recently discussed the argument often propagated by atheists that God must not exist due to
“Investors see refunds and returns and, since humans are neither of those, they will always come up empty.”
One of the more memorable G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” stories is The Resurrection of Father Brown. In this short story the titular character is “murdered”
For much of my life, I did not think that the Liturgy of the Word was that important. The Scripture readings felt like a warm-up,
All you who have been baptized into Christ / Have put on Christ. Saint Melito of Sardis writes, “In Abel he was slain, in Isaac
Last year, I wrote about how excited I was for the construction of our new parish church. Now, I am very happy that the construction
Here is what it’s like to live in New York City: Every day I walk a maze of sidewalks and dodge a never-ending stream of
Debates over North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” and Target’s policy of allowing men and women to use a restroom that doesn’t match their biological sex, but
If you’re a woman, I’m willing to bet that you have struggled with trying to be some definition of “perfect” at one point or another.
