Teaching always involves a curve ball. This past fall I taught “Introduction to Moral Theology and Ethics” at The Catholic University of America. For the
We walked into the large sanctuary of a southeast beach parish and slipped into the back pew. The room was full of retired couples, perhaps
I remember when I first fell in love with movies. It was 1989, I was four years old and saw The Little Mermaid. While watching
This is part V of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, part III,
Life has brought a lot of changes for me over the last year. This time last year I was a Green Beret, deployed with my
This is part IV of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, and part III
Recently I had the great pleasure of meeting up with and interviewing an up-and-coming Catholic artist and good friend of mine, James Rosenbloom, to talk
This week, I was called upon to exercise my civic duty and present myself at the federal court for jury selection. While I was there, a woman
“The moral causes of prosperity… reside in a constellation of virtues: industriousness, competence, order, honesty, initiative, frugality, thrift, spirit of service, keeping one’s word, daring
Love is our story, we don’t need to rebrand it or market it. We just need to live it.
This coming Sunday, March 15th, 2015, is the Fourth Sunday in Lent (it is a bit crazy that we’re already there, but we are). You
This is part III of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I and part II first.
Many of us have been pilgrims, walking the paths saints have trod before us. How many of us have been saints, treading paths worthy of pilgrims yet
Images carry great power with them, and the images we surround ourselves with reflect something of who we are. The family photos we choose to
This is part II of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I first. Feed
Blowing out the Catholic Cool-O-Meter is a Jesuit brother by the name of Br. Guy Consolmagno. If you haven’t heard of him yet, do yourself
For forty days Christ suffered in the desert, fasting and depriving Himself of comfort, choosing to undergo hardship and temptation for the sake of teaching
Minimalism takes work and effort. It is an exercise of saying no to many things in order to focus on saying yes to the important
Throughout Lent, we often focus on the things we are giving up or the extra things we are doing. Maybe we are fasting from chocolate, praying
One of the pillars of Lent is almsgiving (and by extension, almsdeeds). On the surface, almsgiving and almsdeeds mean only to give away money or
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry
