The other day I had a discussion with my daughter about the long path to holiness. She was having a difficult day. We had just spent three weeks visiting my family in my native state of Montana. We were on our way back to Virginia
He felt an envy for religious people that he’s sometimes felt before. This time, John Harris writes, it came from “a year of lockdown, the sudden fear of serious illness and death, and the sense of all of it being wholly random and senseless. …
It’s easy to read the most quotable lines from the saints and assume they were all one Hail Mary away from ecstatic prayer. But for many of the saints, prayer was often dry. Worse, it was often haunted by doubts and utter emptiness. We, too, can
When faced with Christian slogans like “Jesus died to save you from your sins” or liturgical commonplaces like “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” the 21st century twenty-something with virtually no understanding of Christianity might well ask, “What does
Good Friday: Don’t Give Up At the Cross her station keeping,Stood the mournful Mother weeping,Close to Jesus to the last. — “Stabat Mater” Mary was faithful. She journeyed with Jesus during Holy Week. She met Him on the way to Calvary. And there, with John,
They say if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. These words must have extra resonance for all of us who’ve lived through the past year. So many plans we had, large and small, were wiped away in an instant just over
Among the eight victims of the Georgia spa shootings on March 16 was Detroit native Paul Andre Michels. Michels, 54, was killed at Youngs Asian Massage parlor in Acworth, Georgia at around 4:50 p.m., where he had been doing some work as part of a side-job, said his
Since January, I’ve been exploring ways to renew domestic church life. Overall, the feedback generally has been positive, but some readers have expressed the concern that the term “domestic church” potentially leaves out a lot of people. What about divorced households? What about single-parent households? Or
Sin vs. the call to love In my last column, I noted that the main job for every Christian disciple is recognizing that, because of the Fall, our human understanding of love is hopelessly flawed and woefully deficient. We all want to love and be loved,
A Catholic couple in Peoria, Illinois, is asking for the intercession of hometown hero Ven. Fulton Sheen to save the life of their unborn son. Royce and Elise Hood, parents of six children including one in utero, recently discovered that their unborn son Fulton Joseph
