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Art is the Signature of Man

When studying on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in the south of F...

The Danger of Constant Noise: Helping Teens Rediscover ...

As a high school teacher, I am in a constant battle for my students’ attention. ...

Conscience Is Not What You Think It Is, Part 1

Few words in contemporary Catholic discourse are used more often, and more carel...

The Unending Triumph of Mercy

This Sunday’s Gospel records a post-Resurrection appearance of Jesus in which a ...

The Way of Light: Praying the Stations of the Resurrect...

For many Catholics, the spiritual intensity of Lent culminates in a familiar and...

The Time of Mercy Is Now & We Have a Duty to Receive It

In paragraph 965 of her Diary, Jesus said to St. Faustina: Souls perish in spite...

Deification: Becoming Gods in This Life

In a previous article, I wrote about moral perfection in this life, but I focuse...

The One Thing Necessary

“If you don’t remember anything else, remember this one thing!” A parent may use...

Welcoming Our Brothers and Sisters with Disabilities in...

“There are among us so many who are poor and elderly, in need of our understandi...

Defense of Mary: A Sacred Fugue

Imagine listening to a Bach fugue in which one of the opening voices introduces ...

The Resurrection Is Not Myth

Something strange is happening, there is a great stillness on earth today, a gre...

The Great Mystery of Holy Saturday

Christian contemplation takes in the mystery of death and sees it transformed by...

The Empty Tomb’s Absence Prepares Us for His Presence

Easter Sunday’s Gospel describes an absence that confounds the disciples but pre...

Piercing the Heart of God

While some Christians may be unaware that the Sacred Heart of Christ was pierced...

Not a Sympathetic Villain: Judas’ Betrayal

They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an op...

Holy Week Was Political—And It Still Is

It is tempting to see Holy Week as purely spiritual and separate from the tensio...

Q&A with Mystic Alicja Lenczewska

I invite you to explore the interior dialogues of the modern Polish mystic Alicj...

Stop Fleeing Suffering: The Humility and Healing of Hol...

On Holy Thursday, we are called to remember the Institution of the Holy Eucharis...

Unworthy Communion at Easter: What Should We Do?

The Sacred Triduum is upon us, marking the passion of Jesus Christ; His sufferin...

Jean Louis Berlandier and the Pious Witness of America

Jean-Louis Berlandier was a French Catholic who journeyed to America and lived i...