
Are There Animals in Heaven?
Losing a pet can be difficult. My neighbor recently lost her pet kitten. Her eight-year-old daughter began crying inconsolably when she learned of this loss.

Losing a pet can be difficult. My neighbor recently lost her pet kitten. Her eight-year-old daughter began crying inconsolably when she learned of this loss.

If anyone reading has ever driven down Interstate 70 from Wichita, Kansas to Denver, Colorado, then you will know how completely uninteresting the drive can

Like many, I do not always pay much attention to the many saint feast days unless it is a particular saint that has personal meaning

I was pleasantly surprised by the response that my previous article, entitled The Devil Preys on Idle Souls, received from viewers. As a result, I

It had been some time since the three of us, my two non-Catholic co-workers and I, had gone to coffee together. Josh and I had

It has been said that prayer is communication with God, a spiritual give and take session, a holy interchange between Lover and Beloved. Often that

We have had a lot of rain here in my hometown this summer. It was a wet spring and it appears it is going to

I found myself placed next to a high powered High Court Judge at a dinner party in one of the most exclusive clubs in London.

As Roger Scruton says, “Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.” That’s essentially the thesis of Terrence Malick’s recent trilogy

Today there are many people who claim to be atheists. Some famous ones, like Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, have even written books

I will never forget the trauma which my vision problems gave me growing up. I had myopia and astigmatism which made every eye test a

A road trip on a weekend and making sure you can still get to Mass can sometimes result in a very pleasant surprise and a holy

While staying in a remote rural hermitage in western Ireland, there happened to be one day and night that was totally clear — a rare

“Who did you bring with you?” That, Dear Reader, is the question God will supposedly ask us Christians when we beg admittance to the Heavenly

Edel Quinn was an unlikely missionary and servant of God. Young, single, female, and knowingly living out her last few years with an incurable case

My friend Harry has been around for some time, and over his life he has experienced many different kinds of physical pain. So I was

Plato realized that the intelligible is immaterial by identifying a fundamental difference between the intelligible and the material. The intelligible is universal, while the

In the past several years, Christians have begun to face increasing pressure to conform to the prevailing ideologies and points of view of the surrounding

Have you ever pondered this question? “How do I know God’s will for my life”? I believe God has placed this question deep within our

To be sure, morally or otherwise, no one is good in the sense of perfect. We are usually only good in a relative sense. We

For parents of small children, summer vacation only means one thing — a non-stop set of demands for activities. I don’t know about the other parents

As I write this article for Catholic Stand (July 6, 2017), the battle to free one of the cities in the southern part of the