The Spiritual Significance of the Color Red
When we say someone is “seeing red” it’s usually not a good thing. In the Church, however, seeing the color red is actually a wonderful
When we say someone is “seeing red” it’s usually not a good thing. In the Church, however, seeing the color red is actually a wonderful
When the Columbine massacre occurred on April, 20th, 1999, I had only been Catholic for a few months. I was still getting tuned in to
Easter reminds us that as a result of Christ’s death on the Cross we are all called to die to ourselves – to our old
A few years ago I heard about a book from a friend titled Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul. Though I
When we speak of Filipino saints, we Filipinos immediately turn our thoughts to St. Lorenzo Ruiz and St. Pedro Calungsod, the only two canonized saints
This essay is dedicated to Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr, in thanksgiving for her intercession on my behalf. I have been experiencing eye irritation on
Some counter-cultural attitudes are actually pretty widespread. An obvious example is an attitude towards Hallmark holidays like Valentine’s Day. Shirking the yoke of corporatized romance,
At the very beginning of the new year, over 8,000 attendees, most of them young people from across the country, gathered together in downtown Chicago
Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what
About a month ago, during the Euro Cup, I was impressed reading a few pieces in the press about Mesut Özil, an extremely talented Muslim
“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to suffering.” This quote comes from Star Wars’ Master Yoda in in an exchange with
Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson wrote a novel Come Rack! Come Rope! about religious persecution during the Elizabethan era in England. This more-than-just-a-novel shows the gradualness