“Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again” – Pope Benedict
In the still of a cold, wintry night … … all of Heaven burst out in profound joy! A Babe is born in a manger:
We are to know, love and serve God in this life and to share in the paradise of his Beatific Vision in the next life
Can the infinite and eternal God become small enough to fit inside of us, body, blood, soul and divinity? The ENTIRE Christ, not an abstract
Most are familiar with parody. Parody is “an imitation of the style of a particular genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect” or “an imitation
The phrase lumen fidei, the light of faith, is becoming a familiar part of our lexicon. The phrase plays a key part in the psychology
This coming Sunday is a feast with one of the most epic names of any liturgical commemoration: the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King
In just a few days, the Church will celebrate the feast of Christ the King. I never used to be good at remembering feast days
This was a difficult article to write. I have felt the pull to write it for quite a while, but I’ve been hoping that someone
When someone talks about a cathedral or church, we often think about a building. Stained glass windows, candles, crucifixes and tabernacles might come to mind.
Recently, I started a site called Restless Press, an Australasian site with contributors from around Australasia and the Pacific. Things in my life had been
Recently, I had the privilege of caring for the newest member of our family. Jacob Alexander is two months old, and his mother was returning
In this month of November, when our thoughts naturally turn towards the souls in Purgatory and the fragility of life, it is fitting that we
A quick reminder that infallible does not mean sinless. Here are some quick facts about the papacy: 1) All of the 266 popes have sinned,
A few years ago when a journalist interviewed me for an article on Mother’s Day for our city’s major paper, she asked me if I
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,
I attended Mass at a different local Parish last Sunday, so it was a little unique celebrating Mass with mostly strangers. In this instance, it
I was watching the American Bible Challenge on TV one evening, starring Jeff Foxworthy. I didn’t do too well on the questions that they were
I looked down at the half loaf of French bread that had just been handed to me. The Evangelical pastor had called it the body
Protestant Descent Into Secularism In June of this year, the largest Presbyterian denomination in America voted to allow their clergy to perform same-sex “marriages” within
Unless you’ve kept your mom biz aspirations a secret, you’ve experienced it: those comments and looks about your dream life and business. “But, will you
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that
