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Quantum Physics in the Search for Truth

The history of Western thought can be read as a long dialogue between faith and ...

Fostering Christian Discipleship in Our Kids

I glanced over at my daughter sitting at the table next to mine. One of my colle...

Montaigne’s Path into Pious Science

Sixteenth-century France was a time of moral, political, and intellectual chaos,...

Why Did God Create the Universe?

Perhaps one of the most significant stumbling blocks to most would-be theologian...

You Cannot “Fail” Lent: Making Lent a Time of Formation...

I have to remind myself of that every single year. As Lent progresses, I catch m...

8 Tips for Developing a Habit of Reading Scripture Duri...

Understanding Lent and the Penitential Action of Reading Scripture With the arri...

The Gift of Brokenness

I have spent my entire adult life surrounded by the most broken people. I have w...

The Meaning of the Transfiguration: Second Sunday in Lent

Jesus takes His closest friends up a mountain to pray, an action packed with mea...

How the Cross Expresses God’s Power, Providence, and Et...

Among all symbols that have passed through human history, none is more paradoxic...

Why Doesn’t God Bless Me?

“I know I’m not supposed to say this, but God’s promises don’t seem to apply to ...

The Monastic Edge on Caring for the Sick

The most striking way I have seen the Church with the sick is in the person of P...

The Time Has Come for Easter Union

On November 29, 2025, on the eve of the Feast of St. Andrew, Ecumenical Patriarc...

Why Fast?

In the daily lectionary readings recently, we heard the prophet Isaiah explain t...

Weekly Goals for Lent

Our liturgical year’s first slice of Ordinary Time has given way to the great se...

How Not to Worry

Worry is the air in a world of unknowns. We breathe it in as if it were the life...

Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Purified by God’s Grace...

Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four...

What Helps Us Choose Between Two Goods?

There are many times in our lives when we must make decisions between competing ...

Fall in the Garden, Victory in the Desert: First Sunday...

Jesus faces God’s enemy and ours, the one who has hated us from the beginning. G...

The Pattern of Temptations and How to Overcome Them

As we begin Lent, Christ’s three temptations in the desert give us the pattern b...

When a Tantrum Isn’t a Tantrum: Responding to Childhood...

I didn’t have a child abuse accusation on my bingo card that morning, but it sho...