As always Father Robert Barron displays a masterful command of his subject matter in the latest documentary and study from Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Wow! So Christmas is coming again? Really? Oh No! Not again. Well, at least it is our hope as Christians that the Christ would be
We must avoid the great temptation to see ourselves as Mary, present to the crucified Christ of aborted children. While “whatever you did to the least of these you did to me” is a main message of the pro-life movement, equating the killing of children with the persecution of Christ, pro-lifers must be careful not to see themselves solely as those who don’t “do to the least of these.” We must learn to be Mary in the pro-life movement….
I read an article from the Washington Post yesterday called “Like Pope Francis? You’ll love Jesus.” Basically, it’s a tongue in cheek notation of the
I have long been fascinated by the themes of noise and silence during the Christmas season. There is so much noise – from things to
A friend of mind had just learned of my decision to join the Catholic faith. He was nice about it, that is, he didn’t give me
As the day of Christ’s birth hurtles towards us, it is definitely easy to get caught up in the spin of things. Retailers, desperate to
I’ll never forget the disaster zone that was our apartment on the evening after my baby shower. Every possible blanket, gadget, toy, and baby-seat lay
Advent is a time of joyful waiting and expectation. Unfortunately, our culture teaches us to complain, rather than to be cheerful while we wait for things.
We’re in the thick of the Christmas season, well, the secular Christmas season. We all know the Christmas season doesn’t start until after Christmas, right?
Remember a few weeks ago when Pope Francis recommended we evangelize before we moralize. He said that when we speak of morals, we need to
In the November 18 issue of New York Magazine, the cover story is “My Abortion,” and in it 26 women share their experiences. It’s incredible that
Just down the Texas highways from me live Kevin McCormick and his daughter Rachel. A mutual friend introduced us, and I learned that Kevin and
The past month has been, for me, a month of humbling lessons in generosity as millions worldwide answered calls to help my fellow-Filipinos who survived
So I have to admit I’m pretty confused about something one of the leaders of the Church recently said. It seems to be the thing
These men will be saints one day. Indeed, what other movement so calls for and creates saints as the pro-life movement? What movement challenges its people to such radical love, peace, and joy as the pro-life movement? To be Catholic is to be pro-life because to be pro-life is to acknowledge that there is, to quote Samwise Gamgi, “goodness out there, and it’s worth fighting for!
Advent is a season of preparation, waiting and expectation, but society all around us says otherwise. Christmas has been sprawled out in supermarkets and department
With the unofficial feast day of Ven. Fulton Sheen coming up, it seemed a good time to present some thoughts on Sheen. Most people who know
It was a Friday evening as I sat in line for confession. I thought to myself, “This certainly isn’t how the average twenty-something gal spends a
“The Victorians pretended sex did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.” Archbishop Fulton J Sheen This is my first post writing for Ignitum
Becoming Catholic is a tricky business. When I left my wonderful Evangelical church two years ago, I didn’t know what to expect. Now I’m a self-confessed
