Catholics Thinking of Leaving the Church Are Being Boneheaded
The last couple months have certainly been depressing for a lot of Catholics. It brings to mind the title of a musical stage play from
The last couple months have certainly been depressing for a lot of Catholics. It brings to mind the title of a musical stage play from
“Why am I still waiting for my vocation?” I’ve heard variations on this question many times from friends and other young people searching for long-term
Kendra Von Esh, author of Am I Catholic?: A Struggle with Faith, Humility, and Surrendering to God, has written a humorous, frank account about her own
By the time this article is released I will have celebrated my first anniversary of priestly ordination. The gift of the priesthood and my consecrated
Like you, Dear Reader, I was angered and sickened by the Pennsylvania grand jury report. But the lynch-mob mentality that quickly formed among the
Some Catholics are pretty worked up over the news about the recent change to paragraph 2267 (the death penalty) in the Catechism. But many more are
Many people argue that the rescript issued on August 2, which changed Paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to call the
I’m angry. I’m disgusted. And I don’t like being played for a sucker. The Requirements I Must Meet As a Catholic school teacher, I’ve been
I don’t think Mr. Hogg would have been employed in the first place had his predecessor not suddenly dropped dead on his way to school.
After roughly three years of public ministry, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a mountain and revealed His glory to them. They had spent
Dr. Taylor Marshall had a recent post on the state of the priesthood by the numbers. The “priest to Catholics” ratio (taken from the Center
An Unfair Reputation Why have the emotions earned such a poor reputation? Perhaps, the reason is that the emotions are always present in our vices,
During my thirties, I began putting on extra weight. Since I was a tiny, skinny child I really paid no heed until it was ‘too
We were all shocked and shattered when my brother announced that he wanted to become a priest. It was not just that he wanted to
Many in the Church have made serious assertions that we can have a reasonable hope that at the Final Judgement Hell will be empty –
The Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist has been believed by Christians since the time of the Apostles. Understanding this metaphysically and describing our
If you ask me what I know of the accusations against the archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., Cdl. Theodore McCarrick, I must reply, very little.
Some 242 years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America was born. We declared our freedom from the
This column is about worldview (metaphysics and epistemology) although it touches on social justice and politics as well. It is about the greatest challenge
Here then are a few points I have written down to provide you with a standard of conduct to live up to; but our Lord,
Faith is the belief in something intangible, something invisible – and it’s the hardest thing to relay in words to those who don’t believe, or
No one recognizes the power of a symbol like the Catholic Church. Catholic theology itself is imbued with the law that the physical order is