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
Retirees do not have much chance of being read. Publishers do not care much for hacks who have turned 70. No matter what genre. The
To paraphrase our Lord, “do not be afraid of what can kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one
People need, and have a right to, reliable information on the differences between Christianity and New Age. (Pontifical Council for Culture, Pontifical Council for Interreligious
In a hurting world, which desperately needs to encounter God’s love and mercy, it can be overwhelming to think of what we can possibly do
The soul, as St. Teresa of Avila put it, is a castle in which there are many rooms, just as in heaven where there are many
The Book of Revelation is the most misunderstood book of the Bible. After two thousand years and perhaps hundreds of conflicting interpretations, there is still
Off the Shelf 189 – Joe Heschmeyer It’s almost a given that at some point during our lives we will question “Who am I?” What
My spiritual director asked me, “What is one word that you want to be to the Church?” I responded, without hesitation, “JOY!” He smiled and
