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
In the book of Luke, an expert in the law asks, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus responds with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
In conversations with Catholics from around the country, one will encounter varying levels of devotion to Our Lady. Such devotions seem to run along a
There are many painful experiences that are a part of our lives this side of heaven. These can be emotional such as disappointment, heartache, betrayal,
Last month I presented the First Way St. Thomas Aquinas explained the logical existence of God. Here is the Second Way. While this is a
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” Five Man Electric
