Am I the only one feeling that the Catholic Church has become irrelevant in political, social and moral arenas? It’s not really a question anymore.
Contrary to what I know to be the right thing to do, I have a stubborn tendency to dwell too much in the world, being
On Yom Kippur, the ritual trial reaches its conclusion. The people finally drop all their defenses and excuses and throw themselves on the mercy
Twenty-five years ago, my husband discovered a book at a Trappist monastery which questioned my basic premise about the nature of reality, rekindled joy in
In the book Get Us Out of Here! the late Austrian mystic Maria Simma is quoted as saying that “Love without a Cross is empty;
Several months ago, I happened to glance at the cover of America, and noticed something strange among the featured article descriptions: “Jesus, Please Don’t Fix
“Dogma Lives Loudly Within You”, said the Senator. Thank you very much, Senator. I am flattered that you noticed. I do try very hard to
Historically, theological controversy has led to the development of doctrine. This is quite apparent in the record of the ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church,
Like most European Catholics I was born and brought up in the aftermath of the Renaissance influenced by a spirituality that owed as much
Devotion to the Holy Face of Christ I have yet to meet a Catholic that does not know who St. Therese of Lisieux is. However,
Fear and faith are not two sides of the same coin as that would make them binary, either or, all, or nothing. Rather, they
The Church has always recognized the important role that they play in our lives. “They” are God’s angels. “No evil shall befall you, nor
“The greatest among you will be your servant.” (Matt. 23.11) We need to learn to serve others, as we would like to be served. We
There is a movement today in the world that denies the power of the Church of Jesus Christ in our lives. The narrative goes something
The Fifth Way – Argument from Governance or Order Just as the Third and Fourth Ways build on the first two Ways, the Fifth of
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be
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 silence of the Catholic critic is so often preferable to his attention. -Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being Too much Christian “criticism” of film
It is amazing how much the words of Jesus apply to our modern era and cut right to the hypocrisy of our worldly ways. Then
“For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you” (John 13:15). Our Lord told the apostles this at
The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Detroit is getting “turbocharged.” At least that is what George Weigel says. In a recent article at First
I’ve had an extraordinarily good year. By any rational standard, every year of my life has been good, but this year in particular I have
