Catholic Living

One should open the mind only in order to close it on something solid. Reality is never the result of my mind thinking it but rather my receiving it.

If you have not seen a friend or family member for the better part of a decade, the assumption is that, when you do meet, you’ll notice that you’ve both added a pound (or five) for every year of absence. If you did not gain weight in the interim, blunt relatives demand, “How do you … Read more

As we approach another school year, I’d argue we as parents need to do much more to educate our children. To put it bluntly, we shouldn’t wait for others, no matter how professional, to intellectually form our kids.

The story of a small faithful parish unable to weather the storm of Covid and diminishing numbers.

Modern popes have been urging Catholics to embrace the Latin language. Will we follow their call?

Contraception is in Church news again, so it is pivotal that we know why the Church has always prohibited artificial contraception.

The Jesuits used to be God’s Marines. They have become God’s embarrassment.

What has not been widely addressed in the Church is whether abuse that takes place during the celebration of a sacrament is a sacrilege against that sacrament.

I have vowed for the last 50 years that I would never again allow evil to take me without a fight. 

Tomorrow, July 30th, is the 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s reception into the Catholic Faith. Let us look to him for a deeper understanding of the importance of calling non-Catholics to conversion to the Church.

A newly-appointed pastor reflects on the responsibilities given to him.

For two years a single American priest has worked seventeen-hour days to spiritually and mentally prepare teenage girls for what might await them in some of the most dangerous towns in the world.

One shouldn’t be shamed in being labeled a restorationist. God is a restorationist. All of us who are Catholic should be restorationists. 

Here we see the pathos, the sheer sadness that impinges at every turn upon the pursuit and practice of justice. There can be no end to the business of making things fair, definitively and purely so. Not in this life anyway. 

The positives of summer are plentiful. Many people point out, however, that the summer months are lacking in prayer and God. Personal prayer for many in the summer can be borderline non-existent.

God’s providence shines through, even in the midst of sorrow, changing jobs, moving, and praying for a miracle.

The life of Sister Bernadette of the Cross is a story worth reading and sharing with anyone who has suffered in today’s crushing culture.

A person’s agreeable personality traits and a natural likeability do not equate to virtue and trustworthiness, but we tend to sideline reason when the “nice” makes us feel good.

The answering of our prayers—even the most extravagant, and even in a miraculous or semi-miraculous way—is not reserved only for the saints, as I have sometimes thought.

Our nation was built upon countless and nameless patriots who sacrificed for the country they loved.