St. Joseph and his wife Mary, The Immaculate Conception and Mother of God, set the standard for married couples. This is about a couple who
The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Fall (#73 – 78) explains original sin in this way: When tempted by the
In his 11/1/22 article, I was delighted that Father Nathaniel Dryer spoke of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. As per my
Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous confusion sprouting about marriage / family / human sexuality. Yet, the constant teaching of Jesus’ Church simply
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13: 8). A contemporary recently reminded me how some clergy and religious actually made fun
We all know fasting is an essential part of the Christian spiritual life. Our Lord noted that some demons are only driven out “with prayer
By Antonio J. Galindo Aleman In our first installment of this article, we addressed the Gnostic roots of the feminist thought of Simone de Beauvoir,
The irony of living in a world which does not want to recognize or include God in anything is that it is precisely God Himself
I must always remind myself that much has changed since my wife and I were in our twenties. In fact, much has changed even since
September finds schoolchildren back in the daily routine of lessons and learning. Summer camp and beach days yield to books and structured academics. Teachers return
Malice fills today’s world. This is partly because organizations which families relied upon in past generations to foster life skills in the youth no longer
“A chair is still a chair even when there’s no one sitting there…but a chair is not a house…and a house is not a home
Where I go to Sunday Mass, the parish has something called a “teardrops ministry”, which is a group that prays for people who have stopped
Wealth made possible all the things we associate with the “Sexual Revolution”: effective contraception, abortion on demand, radical feminism, and the victory of the LGBTQI
The recent mass shootings, especially by teenagers as the active shooters, have raised many questions. What is going on, what are the causes, and what
Sometimes things happen that you never forget. I wrote about one such happenstance a couple years ago here at CS. It comes to mind again
We’ve all heard it said that some marriages are “made in heaven,” but couples who have been married a long time and those who have
Like many people I know, my work has shifted, post-COVID, to a hybrid-remote setting. In a tight labor market, my largely brick-and-mortar employer realized that
As a body we have ascended at last from the shrouded valleys of Lent into the brilliant light of Christ’s Easter joy. For fifty glorious
The month of May, during which the Church especially honors the Blessed Mother, is upon us. How blessed are we that we have the love
By Thomas McKenna It’s hard to think of a more marvelous saint than the foster father of Jesus, Saint Joseph. The Virgin Mary’s holiness, of
In the 5th Century AD, a teenager named Patrick was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland. Though he escaped, Patrick returned decades later as
