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
In just a few days, from October 5th-19th, Pope Francis will hold a very special and rare event. An extraordinary synod, a meeting of select
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Matthew 18:21
The headlines are graphic and sickening. Christians are being murdered systematically in the Middle East. It seems that while we look on in horror, the world is
I am sitting here on my couch looking around the room. Candles give off a soft glow, and the fireplace looks warm and inviting. My
And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for
With its roots in Vatican II, the New Evangelization is a recognition that a crisis exists in the Church because large numbers of baptized Catholics
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard. A metaphysical principle observed by St. Thomas Aquinas says that
Good, perfect, holy, sweet, innocent, beautiful, kind, pure – there are so many words that described who I wanted to be ever since childhood. These
There are a lot of good painters that I just don’t like. That statement doesn’t mean that they are bad artists. It means the style of this or that
Although Uganda is not a Top 10 Places to Vacation on any list that I have seen, I really meant to go there to relax and
Maybe you heard that on Sunday, September 14, 2014, Pope Francis married twenty couples at St. Peter’s Basilica. I learned about it first from an
New York City can be a daunting place for a Catholic, or anyone who wants to live a religious or moral life. While it is
Taxonomy of the “Hitler Card” Fallacy The Fallacy Files website, which is devoted to exploring and exploding errors in reasoning, gives the following forms for
Ephemeral Hope I possess an intellectual spirituality that makes me shy away from an outward display of faith filled emotions. I prefer internal intensity. Also,
Recently, my family and I vacationed in the New Mexico mountains on the Pecos River. Runaway fires tore through the mountains very near that cabin
Author’s Note: Recently, I had a conversation with a high school friend of mine, concerning how people rarely think about the reality of hell, and
As Christians we are called to listen and respond to God’s direction, because our lives revolve around God. We have no business asking God to
In De Trinitate St. Augustine writes: “There is no subject where a mistake is more dangerous, or the search more laborious, or discovery more advantageous than the unity of the
Across the country, pro-lifers battle for parental consent laws so that a girl as young as twelve can’t just walk into an abortion clinics and
It took roughly 1,750 years after Jesus Christ walked the Earth for the United States of America to be formed and organized by a group
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
Unity…wouldn’t you like a penny for each time you have heard this word praised as some Shangri-la of human goals? I think that I will
The halls were cool. Large pale ceramic tiles lined the walls. The floors polished by Mr. Jensen every afternoon, so I thought. We knew to
