Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian (G.K. Chesterton). The first time my husband and I
I came across a feature story in one of our leading newspapers detailing how Filipinos can get started with another 500 years of Christianity. It
Recently I had the privilege of visiting my community’s mission in Luxembourg. The country of Luxembourg itself is quite small; thirty minutes suffice to drive
St. Thomas More is one of the most important figures of the tumultuous time of the Reformation in Europe. There are few saints who could
Catholic Churches in the United States and Canada and even in other parts of the world are under assault. But one must look hard to
The cardinal archbishop knelt while a sung motet soared through the evening air, lifting the congregation in prayer. It was the Autumn of 1569, and
I want to tell you one of the most remarkable stories that you have ever heard. The story contains within it a secret which, can
It is common knowledge that King Henry VIII of England broke with the Catholic Church, deciding to create his own church. He was influenced by
An ancient legend from the Talmud tells the story of how King Solomon built the first temple. The great king wanted to be different from
In June of this year, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to consider drafting a teaching letter on the Eucharist. Like many ecclesiastical matters,
Two ships approached the estuary, sails set to tack along the coastline. It was clear they had travelled far from the dockyards of Europe, showing
The stories he loves to tell the most are about the priest he credits with keeping him (Dowe) and many hundreds of others alive during
In discussions with evangelist friends, it seems the conversation always gets around to the criticality of believing in Jesus Christ as our personal savior and
Recently I found an old picture from my grade school days. It was taken inside the church in the parish where I grew up (circa
There are those saints we have never heard of, those we know exist yet know little about, those we are drawn to (whether by their
Here in Italy we recently changed our edition of the Roman Missal, the book that guides the priest through the celebration of the Mass. Priests
I have always been uneasy about the progressive left in our country. They are firm in their obstinate refusal to heed God’s command that we
“That they may all be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that
The Bible and the Early Church Fathers either implicitly or explicitly describe Peter’s primacy, and the Church has consistently appealed to these traditions in defense
For perhaps a multitude of reasons, it seems like society has been systematically devolving into a web of tribal allegiances. People try with varying degrees of
That humanity stands on the brink of almost incomprehensible change seems to be increasingly certain. The exponentiality of Moore’s law, which states that computing power
Setting the Scene: The Church in Fourth-Century Rome It is 321AD, just a few years after Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan. Christians are
