
Priestly Holiness
This week, we\’ve had some great role models for priests. St. John Eudes and Pope St. Pius X, both great men of holiness, men who

This week, we\’ve had some great role models for priests. St. John Eudes and Pope St. Pius X, both great men of holiness, men who

Robert McClory recently wrote an article for the National Catholic* Reporter, opining that Pope Francis should revisit the question of the morality of birth control.

I was just standing there looking into the foyer of the Cathedral to see if the door opened as a man pulled the handle. It

This week’s Gospel will likely have much less understanding or “willingness to accept” as the past few weeks. I believe that it was easier to

As Catholics, we are often leery of personal revelation because we are afraid of the being deceived but really, do we trust more in the

As a grad student in journalism, a number of my assignments come in the form of responding to a question, by way of an essay,

Sometimes the forest is ignored because too much time has been spent concentrating on the trees. The big picture loses out to the nitpicking of

Christianity has not been tried hard and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

I first met Pope John Paul II as “Mr. Seymour.” My cousins and I were playing a game of “funeral,” and trailing a tricycle with

It has been years since I first felt God quietly calling me. At first I couldn’t understand what He was asking me to do. As time passed

MSNBC\’s Melissa Harris-Perry has a wacky theory for us that she believes should be the determining criteria for human life. Life itself, it\’s very beginnings,

A while back I heard somebody talking about a gift she once received, it was a handmade cross painted in purple with little pink flowers

I love Austin, Texas. Growing up with two parents who held bachelor college degrees from the University of Texas, I know all about burnt orange,

One of my fondest memories at Baylor was when I first walked downstairs and into the wonder that was my dorm\’s cafeteria. Far away from

Coffee Interviews is a series of video interviews of interesting people I would love to have coffee with and pick their brains. Today I got

The problem with reincarnation is that the belief that our souls are enfleshed again in different forms dismisses any uniqueness of personhood. Not only does

Visit this website for more on NFP Awareness Week. Shortly before my husband and I were married in the Lutheran church (in which we’d

I am 72 years old and wish I could, right now, be with those wonderful young people in Rio for the 28th World Youth Day.

A dissenting or \”cafeteria Catholic\” will often assert that as long as one follows his conscience, he is in good standing with the Church. Well,

In this age where speed of communication is everything, where instant gratification is a bit slow, where people are obsessed with knowing what they will

When I was a child, I moved through life as if I was on a five-lane freeway. I traveled fast, full of confidence, and feeling

A confident-appearing older man looking at the interviewer beside the camera says: “I envy the little old lady who sits in front of the T.V.

It was a cold afternoon, but I\’d agreed to a play date at the park and so I trundled the four littles into the van

When I landed in my first RCIA class I was a hot mess. And I mean a hot mess. I had open gaping wounds from