
Involuntary Asceticism
Cold showers are awesome. Just kidding. I hate them. Who doesn’t? But I still took one every day for over a year. Every day. I

Cold showers are awesome. Just kidding. I hate them. Who doesn’t? But I still took one every day for over a year. Every day. I

Conquering mortal sin and leaving behind venial sin are both good and necessary. But we need more, and that’s where purification, both passive and active,

Like most European Catholics I was born and brought up in the aftermath of the Renaissance influenced by a spirituality that owed as much

It has been said again and again that secularism is a religion. That assertion accurately reflects the secularism infecting the US and the world. We

Every now and then I will arrive a few minutes late to daily Mass. I make it a habit in these situations, when the Word

I recently realized how I naturally put on the classical, jazz or fado (traditional Portuguese music) radio stations in my car, without any sacrifice at

Like most European Catholics I was born and brought up in the aftermath of the Renaissance influenced by a spirituality that owed as much