Saint Paul, Minnesota’s city council recently announced they will celebrate an “Abortion Providers Appreciation Day”. This decision clearly sets the tone; Christians must draw the
The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick
Lent this year has gotten off to a strange start. As the threat of COVID-19 spreads around the world and here in the US, many
INTRODUCTION: PENANCE IS NOT A BRIBE TO GOD Lent is upon us. Interestingly, my Lenten penance and goals have changed since my conversion some 25
Years ago, some time after my adult conversion, I was talking to a friend who was in the habit of saying things like “The Lord
One area the Church need’s a little work in, at least at the local levels, is leadership. We often find overwhelmed and under-performing staffs who
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article explaining that the only thing that matters in the abortion debate is the humanity of fetuses. Since
In “The New Goth is the Original Goth,” I suggested (half fun and full earnest) that we ought to resurrect the “fence” of traditional practices
How beautiful God must be. No wonder He isn’t visible to our human eyes. Oh God, I hope my soul looks beautiful to you. –
The season of Lent is here with us again. And as we get into prayer, penance, and almsgiving, it would be good practice to implore
My wife likes to tell the story of the old spinster woman who died and went to heaven to the kids in the eighth grade
We have all heard of those “choir Masses” – the kind where only the members of the choir sing because they alone know the songs
Off the Shelf 167 – Dr. Ray Guarendi Raising kids in the current society we live in is TOUGH. We know what values we hold
My wife and I were heading to a pub to meet some friends. Kate was bringing her acquaintance Bill, a self-proclaimed atheist. Her goal was
Exactly six years ago, I finally became cognizant of how thin the line between life and death really is when I nearly lost one of
The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick
I recently talked to an elderly friend who has been in a nursing home for two years. Her words struck a chord in me: “You’ll
In this piece, I am going to tackle the subject of cohabitation in the various forms of its practice. First, I’d like to ask whether
When the topic arises, some people ask why we should consider consecrating ourselves to St. Joseph. Father Donald Calloway’s new book, Consecration to St. Joseph, answers this, and
If you’re looking for new spiritual reading this Lent, I highly recommend Bathe Seven Times, a contemplative look at the seven capital sins, written by
The old adage of dealing with conflict was “fight or flight.” As humans, we learned about fight or flight in our anthropological heritage. When threatened, we weren’t
These days, if you want to record a program on TV, you can simply press a button to make it happen. Not so in the
