One filled with joy preaches without preaching. —St. Teresa of Calcutta Happy New Year! No, I’m not a month early. For Catholics who try to
Off the Shelf 100 – Mike Aquilina This week we celebrate the 100th episode of Off the Shelf. To do so we have guest Mike
If you ask me—and I know you haven’t—the current bout of Catholic anger is not only futile but counterproductive. It’s an awkward opinion to hold.
Love and Happiness It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else. The greater the love, the greater the
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of
Do you feel, at times, that you just have too much to do? Is it getting harder and harder to keep your commitments to prayer
In the past, I’ve joked that we should be weary of smartphones since the symbol for their most famous manufacturer is a bitten apple –
The Blessed Virgin Mary’s entire life was and is now a continuing, whole-hearted “Yes” to God’s will. Made in God’s image and likeness, and conceived
Pope Francis says clericalism is the cause of the clergy sex abuse scandals. Cardinal Burke contends that the cause is immoral homosexual activity. Who is
As you read this you probably either A) have not dived into your Thanksgiving feast or B) just finished. You’re probably also going to say….really
“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36) These words,
Ignorance of the religious roots of the United States is so prevalent that lot of Americans really think that there is a clause in either
I would never date outside the Church at this point in my life, although I know good people exist outside the Church. Some of the
Recently, I have been reflecting upon how we, as Catholics, are called to be pat of the family of God. What would we, as a
A few months ago, I wrote that I had learned something surprising about the damned. I had always thought that, although some cursed souls might
Off the Shelf 099 – Fr. Mark Toups We haven’t dived into our Thanksgiving feasts yet but this week we are going to talk about
Every year, my family and I must make one of the toughest choices ever: where to eat Thanksgiving dinner—with my siblings or with my wife’s
The recent Gospel on the poor widow’s mite ( MK 12: 38-44) reminds us that loving God means giving Him everything we have at all
Modern society is focused on satisfying the demands of the self. Too often we don’t look past ourselves and our desires; we refuse to sacrifice
Netflix’s recent (and extremely loose) adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House could have been taken as an epigraph of Christ’s words
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) Military Chaplains as Heroes Military chaplains are
As a nation, we learn many lessons from history. We learn from our wars, from our epidemics, and from our economic failures and successes. And
