How important is faith? According to Jesus, it’s VERY important: “Whatever you ask for in prayer, you will receive it if you have faith.” (Matthew
My husband and I are as opposite as coffee and cream. He grew up as up as West Coast of the West could be, with
It’s difficult to overstate the impact the Holocaust has had on both Jewish and Christian theology … but it can be done. The philosophical influences
I hate sweatshops. I loathe the idea that a global or local economy should embrace industrial sweatshops along with the agricultural equivalent type of work
I’m a notoriously bad cook. Please no lectures on how easy cooking is. Seriously, I’m not only a bad cook, I just hate cooking. I
Current presentations of the Aristotelian/Thomistic arguments of the Unmoved Mover and the First Cause reject infinite series while often appearing to endorse finite series. This
As the dust settles on the Supreme Court’s marriage rulings, Catholics and other defenders of traditional marriage have stepped forward with new energy and comprehensive
Matthew Warner recently discontinued his blog at the National Catholic Register. In his second-to-last blog post, Why the World Doesn’t Take Catholicism Seriously, he charged
I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory of his eyes, His body gleams amid eternal snows, His tears fall
You are probably expecting to read about some out-of-this world experience that brought me face to face with the \”Father of Lies\”, but I have
Even though we may not find the word in scripture, the Bible does give us guidelines regarding privacy. When Adam and Eve ate of the
For as long as I can remember, Independence Day celebrations, though filled with family gatherings, fireworks and parades, have also called us to reflect on
As we are all aware by now, on June 26 the Supreme Court of the United States issued opinions in the cases of Hollingsworth v.
I had a conversation with my mom the other day. She was urging me to try to find a different parish, because although I love
When I was in a Catholic college many years ago, my moral theology class featured an anthology of essays on various moral choices, pro and
In his book, Socrates: A Man for Our Times, the author Paul Johnson suggests that getting to know Socrates better might help us through our current
One of my favorite scenes in Return of the King is Sam and Frodo sitting together as Mt. Doom erupts around them. When Frodo says,
I stumbled upon Evangelical blogger and author Rachel Held Evans\’ blog post entitled Christians & Masturbation: Seven Perspectives, and I thought it would be great to
I wanted to personally share a method of reading the Bible with the Catechism that opens up the depths of the faith to you, and
Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson wrote a novel Come Rack! Come Rope! about religious persecution during the Elizabethan era in England. This more-than-just-a-novel shows the gradualness
Planned Parenthood is now de-funded in the great state of Oklahoma, and you can almost hear already the anguished, exaggerated cries of alarm. Oh the
One of the more popular quotes in Catholic circles is, \”There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church,
