How can imperfect contrition lead to perfect contrition? To make a “good confession” and to receive absolution for sin, a sinner must be, according to
If you go to the website Brainy Quotes and do a search on “pride” you are apt to find more quotes lauding pride than those
O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land
A Love-Hate Relationship with Sexual Freedom Our culture has a love-hate relationship with the ideas of sexual liberation that spewed out of the sixties and
Today’s secular society operates on an array of levels when it comes to belief, truth, and moral relativism. For this reason, it becomes necessary to
This is the second part of a series on The Power of the Mass. Part one is available here. I have been inspired to make
As a Catholic, I am often challenged about our use and reverence for the crucifix. The most common charge has been that the crucifix
I was involved in an online discussion last week on Facebook and the points raised in the discussion illustrate many erroneous ideas many people, including
A war is brewing in the Philippines. And it is not a war of guns (although, much of the cause of this brewing war has
What Does the Father Desire? Have you ever stopped to think about that? I spend so much time telling the Father what I desire that
Almost 70 years ago a famous but now somewhat forgotten debate took place on BBC radio between Bertrand Russell and Rev. C. J. Copleston,
My 8-year-old grandson and a stranger both gave me a special gift one recent Sunday. And there I was thinking I was doing something good
“Give us this day our daily bread” … what does that mean? On the surface, it’s a simple acknowledgment that the things we need
Pride is something most of us understand to a certain extent. Or, at the very least, we think we know what it looks like when
“Today it is the Old Testament who suffers for the New one.” Sœur Mirjam Else Michaelis (1899 – 1942, Auschwitz) Can you imagine what might become
When we feel cut off from God, battling a losing war with ingrained sin, the only viable solution to our dilemma is to call out
This is Part II of the PostPersons story. In Part I a future was described in which the Supreme Legislature of the United States, once
One of my favorite movies, if not my favorite of all time, is Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. I watched this movie in my
I’m Okay. I’m Not So Sure About You or the Others… “But I’m a good person. I try to live the right way and not
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack. (Psalm 23:1) What could a shepherd possibly provide me that would leave me lacking of
There’s something wonderfully uplifting about being with hundreds of Catholic men to put aside our egos and bring our man-made messes before the Father as
My wife and I wanted to share New Year’s Eve with our eldest daughter. She lives in New Hampshire and we live in East Tennessee,
