Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 I had
Every year, more than three million pilgrims visit the small French town of Lourdes to pray for healing and grace. Lourdes is perhaps the most
I have written before that my spiritual life is owed to Mary. A few years ago, after a long period of lapsed faith, I felt
I have been thinking a lot about fatherhood lately. Having put in quite a few years as a dad with three beautiful children, you would
Is a prayer like this Okay? Hanoi Jane Excepted, Ora Pro Nobis My good friend, Captain Ronald Bliss (may he rest in peace now), on
Father Patrick Manogue was both a legendary priest and a very interesting character in Western history. An Irish immigrant, Manogue became a miner during the
priests It’s very common in our culture today for people to think that much of what we Catholics believe is behind the times and out
Does “Everything happen for a reason”? Things do happen for a reason, but what is the reason and who is the author of everything that
The subtle, evil coercion of lies I was told, and expected to believe as true, from the women’s movement over our reproductive rights came to
The purpose of revelation is not to confirm what man can know of material and immaterial things through his own natural capacity. The purpose is
“This deadly cancer of anger… makes us unlike ourselves, makes us like timber wolves or furies from Hell, drives us forth headlong upon the points
God says he hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). Jesus tells his followers that Moses only permitted divorce because of the hardness of their hearts and that
Social media today is flooded with what some call ‘fake news’ stories. Whether it is a falsification about an archaeological discovery, an allegation of criminal
The historicity of God—God’s presence in history—should never be taken for granted, yet we do have a tendency to forget that God is active in
My husband and I celebrated ten years of marriage in May. This decade has brought with it many things including three children and my conversion
“Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled,” [Luke 1:45]. We all know the pleasure of
Thomas Aquinas’ Ways But on one particular day, she grabbed my full, locked-on attention. She was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas’ famous Five Logical Proofs
Some Protestant clergy have chosen unity over fragmentation. They have given up everything to become Catholic and lead congregations into the Catholic Faith. On February
A leap year baby, Francis L. Sampson was born on February 29, 1912, in Cherokee Iowa. A quarter of a century later he graduated from
We all have a moment in our lives when our innocence is lost, when we come to see that the world is sometimes a dangerous
I walked out of the church after Mass, through the small courtyard towards the parking lot. In that staggered line of people, I happened to
There are any number of reasons to believe that a God exists. But actually proving that God exists is much harder. And once you prove
