Introduction I may need to be disabused of simplistic notions of church history and the Eucharist during my life time. It is clearly the case
While I am not a degreed historian, I have been a history buff all my life. Studying Church history, especially early Christianity, the Church fathers,
Explaining the reason I remain a Catholic seems a bit like describing the inner workings of an old pocket watch by only looking at its
Secularism and strong anti-Christian beliefs are fast eroding the influence of the Catholic Church. People no longer believe they need to go to mass. Churches
Perhaps no presidential election since that of 1928 has politicized the Catholic Church in America as much as the one that concluded last month. Not
October 22 is the feast day for St. John Paul II who is a very special saint for me. There is a personal connection to
I recently went to mass at a Convent of the order of St. Clare in Sintra, Portugal. We talked to one of the nuns briefly
Many think that studying history is boring. They may equate reading history books to watching grass grow, a mundane task that is nap inducing at
In a sign of the times, when a Catholic Facebook friend began a status update by stating how hot she was, my first thought was
Our Church crisis Like many, I have been reacting to the blogosphere and news reports regarding Cardinal McCarrick, the Pennsylvania grand jury report and the
“The Scarlet Whore, the Dogs of Hell, the Second Beast, the Anti-Christ, ‘these have disgraced humanity and crimsoned a great part of the world with
