
‘Sweet Baby Jesus’…Is a Beer?
A trip to my local Giant grocery store the other night brought an unpleasant surprise. Back near the store’s beer coolers, clerks were stacking case

A trip to my local Giant grocery store the other night brought an unpleasant surprise. Back near the store’s beer coolers, clerks were stacking case

It’s time. I’ve put off writing this for a while, but the time has come. In the past few months, I’ve noticed an increase in

You’ve seen pictures of the Immaculate Heart of Mary beside the Sacred Heart of Jesus in many Catholic homes. In our home, the “alliance of

Is contraception “a hill worth dying on”? asks Austin Ruse, one of the Catholic Church in America’s most sage, most lucid commentators. There is no question that

\”Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep… And some seed fell on

“There was a young man who said, God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there’s no

As I sat patiently in the airport waiting for my plane to arrive, I quietly watched the people around me. I wondered where they were

The last few weeks have been filled with numerous news stories of end of life issues and interesting online dialogues have taken place. It is

Mystery: from Latin mysterium or Greek mystērion. Various definitions suggest something secret, private, or not easily understood. We all probably know someone whose life seems

The love God has for his people is intense, all-consuming, a torrential force of love that is poured out from His heart and on to

I mean Faith and science in the context of philosophy. As humans we can only concentrate on one thing at a time, so we

President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis on March 27 at the Vatican. Here are a few things I think the Holy Father might

It seems there is far too little affection in the world. In Holy Scripture, we are repeatedly instructed to exercise affection towards others, “Salute all

“Non in dialectica placuit Deo salvum facere populum suum” (“It is not by arguing that God chose to save His people”). -St. Ambrose “Fortunately, there

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything

I don’t want to argue about the reality of the communion of saints, both the living and the dead. I just want to encourage believers and seekers

My goal is to show how the Catholic Church made the rational judgment, after serious investigation, that one man received a miracle of healing through

Conspiracy Theories and Catholicism is a series of posts about things like albino assassin monks, secret Bible books, pagan Santas and secret councils— popular culture

Driving a cab in New York City gives one the opportunity to witness nightly the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Adulterers. Every year there

King David tells his son Solomon: Take Courage. Be a Man. (1 Kings 2:2). It\’s a great one-liner and a bestowal of manhood from a

“…the Church is always the only thing defending whatever is at the moment stupidly despised.” —G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion, 1926] “But every

According to some of the commenters on Dr. Kaczor\’s post “Does the Catholic Church Hate Women?” at Strange Notions, I\’m just an oppressed victim of