A novel approach to understanding God’s revelation to man is to begin at the very beginning. That beginning for us is our condition at the
Vanity of vanities! . . . All is vanity. What does a man gain by the toil at which he toils under the sun? .
Occasionally I hear someone say “I think of myself as a spiritual person, but I’m not religious.” The implication is that “being spiritual” is somehow
Grief is almost the same as open-heart surgery. Nothing can hurt us, disintegrate us, heal us, or teaches us more valued soul lessons like grief.
Ask some people what ‘secularism’ is and the response may be something like ‘oh, that’s just separation of church and state.’ Such a response, however,
Over the centuries people have often asked whether philosophy has any place in religion. Sometimes philosophy has been rejected as a distraction. On other occasions
Religions have traditionally had a view on how to be happy. In recent years, Positive Psychology has started to offer its own insights. This raises
I became interested in the relationship between God and dogs when I began to pray for those suffering from Coronavirus. My husband and I have
Lately, the daily news is full of images of burning and looting in our cities. Prior to that, it was becoming difficult to express our
My wife likes to tell the story of the old spinster woman who died and went to heaven to the kids in the eighth grade
The old adage of dealing with conflict was “fight or flight.” As humans, we learned about fight or flight in our anthropological heritage. When threatened, we weren’t
We can occasionally learn things from comments on articles here at CS and at other Catholic websites as well. Occasionally reading the comments can be
There’s been a lot talk during the last 20 odd years, mostly by the secular progressive moral relativists among us, about fairness and being fair.
As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Call no one on earth your father;
Faith. What is it really? It’s commonly believed that religious faith is, essentially, whatever one chooses to make it, whatever is agreeable to the individual
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the
Whether Pope Francis is guilty or innocent of a coverup on behalf of a criminal clergy, it is a grave injustice to the victims of those
Earlier this summer my wife and I became friends with a young person, about the same age as us, who let us know that they
Some of us may be old enough to remember the opening line of Elvis Presley’s song, “Are you lonesome tonight…?” As it turns out, a
It’s hard to understand why so many people today are unable to see that humans are not, and never will be, smarter than God. And
On May 1, 2018, the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia will celebrate their jubilee: that’s 150 years since the first Benedictine sisters, originally from Bavaria,
We receive the virtue of faith at Baptism, and that faith empowers us to believe in the unseen God. It is the virtue of faith that