Because of a past professional career in exercise science and physical fitness, I like to make analogies from the physical domain to the spiritual domain
A deep faith–it’s what’s needed to weather life’s storms–now and in the days ahead. What storms? You pick: current trends in the Church, in society
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,
Swing Like a Pendulum Throughout my life I have swung from one side of the political spectrum to the other, seeking truth and justice. After
With rising costs of food and just about everything else, makes sense to cut back, right? Too much of anything of this world is not
While driving back home from a 40 Day for Life shift I got annoyed at all the political ads on the radio station to which
On July 29th, 2022, I wrote my first handwritten letter to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a blue prayer journal that my sister bought
Last week, I embarked on a wild ride through the northeastern United States. While my husband stayed behind to care for land and animals, I
Jesus Is Taken Down From the Cross My hour of prayer begins as I approach the thirteenth Station. The focus of this station is the
Have you heard the Ryan Bingham song: Hard times they come and they go, and most of the time they’re in the middle of the
During the course of the past few months, a relatively obscure book written in 1970 by then-father Joseph Ratzinger has garnered interest from major news
Be Still, Stop, Surrender, Let Go Various translations of the bible present the famous saying of the title of this article as either Psalm 45
Imagine for a few minutes that Jesus is staying with some neighbours down the road just like 2000 years ago when he travelled slowly through
If you spend any time reading your way through history, it’s likely you’ve met The Venerable Bede (c. 672–735). He wrote on everything, it seems:
It’s okay to question ordinary Church teaching on some issues. Questioning Divinely Revealed Truth, however, is another matter altogether. So when a Cardinal of the
A recent Catholic Stand essay raises the issue of the fidelity of Popes and bishops. The essay brought to mind an old game show of
I place this before you. You are free to accept it as a mystery or to call it nonsense and dismiss it as meaningless. Choose
Too many times, I feel as if I am living a lie. When people find out that my husband and I have as many children
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.
This is a question about the nature of faith. It asks whether a consideration of health and safety has implications for Christians’ models of faith
It was over three years ago, while searching up writing opportunities online, that I stumbled upon an ad featuring a black-and-white graphic of a man
We call them miracles—supernatural occurrences that enter our lives. The word comes from the Latin and means “to wonder.” According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, miracles are
