Poor Richard Dawkins! He’s a bright lad, but he just can’t help stepping in it, can he? Now he’s gone and insulted those of us
Perhaps you have heard it said that the youth are the future of the church. I’m here to tell you that this statement is not true.
If there is any process that can take your sense of hope, doubt, faith and trust, put all of them in a blender and see
Years and years ago, I took a volunteer position at our parish. I had been impressed by our pastor’s drive and orthodoxy, leading his congregation
Road Trip! One of my younger kids, my son, is going to be a high school senior this coming school year. He asked me if
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider
Adam’s sin weakened the will and darkened the intellect of all his progeny. God promised a redeemer to remedy the human condition. Every time I
We’ve all witnessed or experienced it. The screaming and squirming child that does everything in his power to thwart the parent’s efforts to love him
How do we gain true humility? How well do we really know ourselves? Recently, for spiritual reading I’ve been reading St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle.
My son was a third grader when he first faced prejudice in his classroom. “Mommy, we went to the front of the room to put our tally marks
Just over two months ago, I was joined in sacramental union to my beautiful bride, and before the ink had even dried on our marriage certificate,
In his 1990 encyclical, Redemptoris Missio, Pope Saint John Paul II writes: “God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully
In 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tried in vain to explain to the Washington Press Corps that the most difficult stage of risk assessment
Bouncing off of last month’s mention that the Spanish Inquisition didn’t burn witches, I decided I’d talk about what “The Inquisition” is and what they did.
I have just discovered that my high school freshman son loves music and listens to vast amounts of it, whenever he gets the chance. Believe
What Are “Casual Catholic Men”? There is a Catholic “man-crisis.” Large numbers of Catholic men, while not rejecting the faith explicitly, have implicitly rejected the faith
We all thought Papi was being a big baby when he stopped leaving the house. In the past year, he had become needy, asking us
Often Christians lament the darkness in the world around us. War, abortion, euthanasia, and murder are regular occurrences even in our own communities. No wondering
I wish Catholics were as devoted to reading the Bible as frequently as some Protestants. Granted, many active Catholics do read the Bible regularly, or
Trendy — it’s all the rage in today’s works of charity. Never mind that the theological virtue of Charity should be a staple in the
This is hardly the most controversial topic of our time, but I have heard complaints on both sides of the fence on it. Jeans in
Fr. Ronald Knox, an English Catholic of the early 20th century and convert, gave retreats and talks to lay people to help them deepen and
