How do we perceive the Divine and communicate with God as beings who possess both physical and spiritual senses? Some ascetics might try to starve
This last Sunday was celebrated as “Media Prayer Day” here in New Zealand. It was an initiative of a group of Christian Churches of various
Sacrifices can create various levels of personal inconvenience or pain. Typically, this pain (which can probably be more accurately described as a discomfort or dislike)
The Old Testament reading from this past Sunday comes from one of my favorite passages in the Bible. At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah
The year is only a little more than half over, but already it is turning out to be a very bad year for Planned Parenthood,
It’s not uncommon for women to be swept away with the freedom and flexibility the mompreneur lifestyle offers. However, they overlook the financial realities of being
My car needed a new set of four tires … badly! I bought a used car that was in pretty good shape and knew it
It is nauseating to hear the pathetic mantra that opposing abortion is opposing women and, in fact, that being pro-life is somehow waging a war
The Desire and the Fear It is so easy to want to start doing better. You read an inspiring article, come across a motivational image,
Pretty soon, many students will make the return to college to continue their four year academic odyssey. This group will also include recent high school
I sat quietly in a small room at the hospital waiting to pick up x-rays to take to my doctor. I had discovered a lump
Our little city has been reeling. In a very short time, there were two deaths so compelling that they each independently made international news: here and
“Music has power to soothe the savage breast.” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride “This so-called ‘music,’ they would have to concede, is in some way
In case you missed it, I used my debut post on Catholic Stand to suggest that contraception may not be the great and mighty liberator
For Richard Dawkins the ideal of education is to teach children how to think rather than what to think (The God Delusion, p. 327). Nevertheless,
I lay there, cuddled in bed with my littlest guy and reminded him that we needed to say bedtime prayers before our story. He looked
The cool waters of the shoreline keep lapping at my ankles, and I sink deeper into the spiky sand with the pull of each outgoing
“Unless you turn and become as children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) I was doing some reflecting on this
A study published in the journal Cognitive Science has led its authors to the conclusion that children “exposed” to religious ideas have greater difficulty discerning fact from
The philosophical error of our times is to stay stuck inside our heads seeking meaning and coherence in subjectivity, a meaning and coherence that subjectivity
Bishop Anthony Taylor, ordinary of the Diocese of Little Rock, released a statement concerning the young immigrants who have arrived on our borders. If people
Pope Francis has repeatedly urged us to evangelize. His oft repeated message calls us to share the word of God where we are, saying, “The
When the boys’ choir began to proclaim the psalm, tears pooled up in my eyes. On my last evening in Oxford, a fellow classmate and
Something I have always found so intriguing within the parameters of women’s rights debates and feminist issues is how incredibly sacred contraception is to so
