For the past five or six years I have been attending a men’s group run by a non-denominational evangelical church. I would have liked to
We use the word disciple a lot, but do we know what it really means? What images does that word conjure up? When you hear
Social media is a powerful vehicle for educating and evangelizing modern society about faith, social justice, morality, and the rights of the unborn from the
It’s hard to understand why so many people today are unable to see that humans are not, and never will be, smarter than God. And
Churches around the United States are disappearing. Parishes consolidating, dwindling numbers of cradle Catholics that no longer attend Church, mixed signals from the leadership of the
Somewhere after years of dependent living, and practicing discipleship under the auspices of parental figures, the entrance into the realm of independent living occurs. While
At the very beginning of the new year, over 8,000 attendees, most of them young people from across the country, gathered together in downtown Chicago
This past January, thanks to the collaboration of Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) and the Jesuits, the forearm of St. Francis Xavier came to my city,
A Tale of Two Christmases One of the defining moments for me on my journey to the Catholic Church was over Christmas Eve and Christmas
The Great Commission, as it has come to be known, was given to the disciples of Jesus just before His Ascension into Heaven. These parting
As someone who is in the process of converting to the Catholic Church, the prayers of the saints have been something I’ve cherished. Although
Jesus sent out these twelve instructing them, … “Go … to the lost sheep … As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven
I Am a Loss Leader! Way back in the 1980s I was a marketing student. There was a common business term in those days, “loss
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you
The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Detroit is getting “turbocharged.” At least that is what George Weigel says. In a recent article at First
I’ve had an extraordinarily good year. By any rational standard, every year of my life has been good, but this year in particular I have
There is rising darkness, chaos and disorder all around us today. This is happening both outside of the Church as well as within. It is
A peacemaker can make enemies friends. Peacemaking and Friendship Friendship is at the root of everything good. Once God creates a person like you or
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not
The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary conclude with two events, the Assumption of Mary into heaven, and her Coronation as Queen of all Creation (meaning
These days, we often view our faith as something private, something that’s just between us and God. We go to Church on Sundays, we say
I entered the Catholic Church in 2010, but my wife and I turned slowly away from the popular ideological goals and dreams of this world
Back in the early 1900s The St. Anthony of Padua chapel railroad car traversed North America bringing the Sacraments to folks in areas of the
I once had a priest tell me, after I spent a while explaining to him all the concerns I had running through my head as
