There is a sign that someone made on oak tag and hung outside their cubicle in my office. It reads simply “keep moving forward.” It
In whatever I might know about life, there are two truths that have helped me to deal with suffering. They have many times given me
The Church’s teaching that we must have both trust in God and “fear of the Lord” seems contradictory at first glance. Recently, reflections from an
A few months ago I was following a discussion on social media about how people of faith would respond if faced with martyrdom. It generated
Scripture teaches us the difference between despair and hope in the persons and reactions of Judas and Peter. Peter denied even knowing Our Lord three
I am living “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything” (2 Corinthians 6:10). No matter
During my spring break, a friend and I were talking about homosexuality. It has been on our minds so much since the scandal in the
People suffer—good people and bad people. When the so-called good people suffer, many of us look at the so-called bad people thriving and complain. Scripture
Since the Fall, mankind has had to endure suffering. And since then, we’ve tried to explain what suffering is, what it means for us, and
We all know suffering when we see it and we’ve all experienced it in some form. For many people, unfortunately, suffering leads to pushing away
We’ve all experienced suffering in some way. It is a plight of humanity. Yet, to define suffering is not so easy because it comes in
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force. (Matthew 11:12) My fallen nature is anxious and fearful. Although I’m
The beginning of 2019 brings to mind my good but forgotten intentions of 2018. While reminding me of my failures, the turn of the calendar pages
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself
Why does evil exist? If God is all-loving, wouldn’t he want to protect his creatures from any and all suffering? Human parents try their best
I hate John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” The song begins, “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only
Mountains and a Mustard Seed is what I would call a “legacy book,” a kind of capstone on an amazing family journey guided by the
We just celebrated the exaltation of the cross. It is good to remember that much of our lives on this earth is about the cross.
Spiritual warfare is something many Christians avoid. It is little understood and poorly portrayed in movies such as the original Exorcist. In the movie, the
These days, it’s difficult to be Catholic. And now more than ever it’s hard to evangelize the Faith. I don’t think anyone will argue this.
Our good, holy, faithful clergy now suffer abuse from an outraged public in the midst of the unfolding abuse scandal. Check out the online
Everybody suffers; there is simply no getting around it. Nobody gets through life unscathed. In fact, the universality of suffering is the single greatest argument
