A hallmark of the Jesuit Order has been courage. The Order founded by that Basque soldier turned saint, Saint Ignatius Loyola, had as little use
– Didn’t you hear about that big archaeology dig they did a decade or two back, that one that found a bunch of dead babies
On January 5, 2015, Matthew James Christoff of the organization The New Emangelization published an interview he conducted with Raymond Cardinal Burke. In this interview,
Culture is a word with a depth of meaning – a mixture of pain, joy, pride, love, restriction, and tradition. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary,
Remember when you saw a group gathered together on the school playground that surrounded a kid. You rushed over to them because it looked like
As the year ends, I always recall my confirmation saint, Saint Thomas Becket, the holy, blessed martyr, whose feast day falls on December 29. His story
Edelweiss, a show tune written for the musical Sound of Music, refers to the sturdy mountain flower, which in the 19th century became a symbol for the
I know this is old news now, but so is the resurrection of Jesus. The Extraordinary Synod on the Family that ended on October 19,
Long time ago, in a far away country lived a boy, John, with his parents and one younger sister. One day his parents told him
The rhetoric of the American Revolution was mild compared to that of the French Revolution. In Great Britain the monarchy had long since been replaced
They bowed their heads to say grace, then started to eat a rare breakfast together when the cell phone rang. The man and his two-and-a-half
Jefferson Davis was always a friend to Catholics. In his youth as a boy he studied at the Saint Thomas School at the Saint Rose
The old man was generous to a fault, had raised a passle of kids, and loved even more grandkids. He and one son-in-law, though so
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider
Bouncing off of last month’s mention that the Spanish Inquisition didn’t burn witches, I decided I’d talk about what “The Inquisition” is and what they did.
In yesterday’s column (Part I), I told you about a Franciscan Friar, Brother Anthony Pham Dinh Tuyen OFM Conv, beginnings and escape from Vietnam as a young
Imagine finding yourself in a hostile land. It has a history of being violently hostile to everything Christian – person and property. What do you do
Over the weekend, I came across an article that stopped me in my tracks. The CNN Belief blog lists the residences of many of America’s prominent Catholic
One of the titans of the Catholic Church of the Nineteenth Century in the United States was Archbishop John Ireland, the first Archbishop of Saint
This installment of Conspiracies & Catholicism seems kind of redundant after last week’s article on magic, but I’m looking more at the “everyone knows” about
Herbert Butterfield, the influential twentieth-century historian, identified the Scientific Revolution as “one of the great episodes in human history,” which, along with the rise of
Wisdom and virtue The term Catholic liberal education means an education that is (1) Catholic, as defined by the Catholic Church, and (2) liberal, as
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep
With the 238th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence upon us, it seems fitting to ponder the price of freedom and the meaning of true
