Praying It or Saying It?
G.K. Chesterton once quipped that “familiarity is fatigue.” This can describe our approach to the Mass. Because of the predictability ...
The Lord’s Day
If Aristotle were to return to the earth in 2015 and see all that has been accomplished he would assume ...
Finding Beauty in the Church
One of the great tragedies of recent times is that we have lost the sense of the beautiful. We have ...
Unlocking the Puzzle
I hate Autism. I can never say that enough. Because of the way that it attacks children and causes such ...
Apostles of Mercy
Pope St. John Paul II has been referred to by many as the “Mercy Pope.” When the Diary of St ...
The Sin of the Century
In a 1946 address to the United States Catechetical Congress, Pope Pius XII identified the “sin of the century as ...
Deconstructing the Jesus Myth
Just as sure as Easter coming on the first Sunday after the first full moon in Spring is the seasonal ...
A Compelling State Interest?
With the passage of Indiana’s Religious Freedom and Restoration Act and as similar laws begin to pop-up all over the ...
Knowing the Enemy
One of the more glaring omissions of the Passion accounts in the Gospels is that no attempt to explore the ...
Putting the Horse Before the Cart
Quick quiz: what two characters of the Passion are named in each of the daily Gospel readings that the Church ...