As racism dominates the news and social media, it is important to remember the Church’s stance on this matter. The Church has always affirmed the
Off the Shelf 191 – Joe Heschmeyer This week Joe Heschmeyer returns to discuss his book Pope Peter – Defending the Church’s Most Distinctive Doctrine
Salvation is the central message of Christian good news. This is shown in ancient inscriptions like the Ichthus (fish), which spell out the claim: Jesus
Abraham Lincoln said, “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own
(Maureen’s) training will be familiar to all who seek to live a God-Centered, loving life. We are all trained every day by all of those
A few years ago, I read through the parables of the Kingdom of God in Matthew 13. Jesus described the Kingdom with several familiar images—the
Human Things For Sale, Whole Or In Parts It follows as a dark night the day that if it is true reality that a human
It is easy for me to announce that I follow Jesus. It is not so often that I think or talk of Him, as my
The past few months during COVID, everyone has experienced an uptick in suffering. These are difficult times, a time to cling to God. My family
We all want to be happy. No sane person can object to that but only a few could swallow Christ’s prescription for happiness – “Deny
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin). Finding the self, soul’s
I remember once in high school I wanted to make the basketball team. I was not that good, and I was told to go running
Humanae Vitae (HV) is a dynamic, challenging and life-transforming encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and promulgated on July 24, 1968. It coherently follows the
Usually, when people find out that my husband and I have twelve children, there are certain comments and assumptions they tend to make, almost as
Off the Shelf 190 – Karen Salstrom More and more families are making the tough decision to abandon the public school system and instead choosing
In his essay, “Wanted for Arrest: Followers of Jesus Christ,” Dennis Dillon asks, “Are we at the beginning of de-Christianization, as France was in the
For me, it was a long journey from addiction into the Heart of God. A combination of hard physical work and the direct intervention of
My dear friends, beware of despair! The worries and anxieties that come into our lives can certainly knock us off balance and shake us to
Since the fall of man, we deal daily with the conflict between virtue and vice. Virtues are those characteristics or behaviors that move the soul
Public schools have become increasingly brazen in the nature of some of their social teachings, which conflict with the Catholic faith. Undertaking Catholic homeschooling can
Should Catholics be against whiteness? We Catholics should be against the word “Whiteness” because we should be against the ideology of “Whiteness.” We should NOT
With the U.S. elections upon us, we should take a few moments to recall the type of country our Founding Fathers created and how voting
