
Books to Delight the Young at Heart
This week I wanted to highlight a few books for the younger crowd. I often receive books for kids, and full reviews on each can

This week I wanted to highlight a few books for the younger crowd. I often receive books for kids, and full reviews on each can

How can we battle the forces against our attempt to become holy? Can we truly master our thoughts and our desires even in the most

Continuing A Brief History of Christian Mystical Spirituality- Part VI Part 1– A Handful of Heretics in The Early Church If you visit Italy you will

Like the rest of my fellow Catholics in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, my heart has a continual, aching heaviness. In these terrible but

I wish The Better Pastor, A Fable about Embracing the Role of Leading a Parish by Patrick Lencioni had been written when I was a

The practices of physician assisted suicide (medical aid in dying) and euthanasia are being increasingly accepted throughout the world. This acceptance is becoming all too

In medicine and in our culture, there is a growing acceptance for what is now being referred to as “medical aid in dying.” The term

Off the Shelf 143 – Father John Bartunek Has anyone ever told you they are spiritual but not religious? Or how about religious but not

You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms (Jeremiah 51:20). ABOUT GENERAL GEORGE PATTON

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

The prodigal son parable is a parable about loneliness. This may sound strange since it is usually considered a parable of mercy. However, the two

This article will demonstrate just how Jesus Himself fulfills all of the Jewish feasts from the Old Testament. After each Feast outlined below, rituals from

Non in dialectica placuit Deo salvum facere populum suum (“It is not by arguing that God chose to save His people”). —St. Ambrose troll noun

“Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation.” Our Lady of Good Help gave this mission to

For the past few years Saint Benedict Press has released a series of books in the “A Year With…” series. These titles have been A

This past August, my wife and I celebrated 29 years of marriage. It is still hard to fathom that number and the swiftness with which

Last weekend, I gave a presentation on liturgical living at the Catholic Rural Life Festival in Maine. The festival, begun just a few years ago

Mystics and theologians have long and often used romance as a metaphor for our relationship with God. Many of the challenges we face in our

This is part of an ongoing discussion on Catholic Stand: Is it a sin for a Catholic with a well-formed conscience to vote for any

October 22 is the feast day for St. John Paul II who is a very special saint for me. There is a personal connection to

Pew Research’s recent study revealing that a majority Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence but instead believe that consecrated bread and wine are

Off the Shelf 142 – Jimmy Akin Did you know the Bible is a Catholic book? Some of our Protestant brothers and sisters may not