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What is Your Reason for Doing Good?

Whenever I ask people about their spiritual and moral lives, I usually get answe...

Seeking the Holy Face During Lent

I have been playing “Peek-a-boo” with my young grandchildren lately. They deligh...

40 Reasons To Be Catholic (for Non-Catholics)

Why be Catholic? For many, the answer is deeply personal. For some, the reasons ...

Taking Babies from Mothers: The Hypocrisy of Vegan Bill...

“Dairy Takes Babies From Their Mothers.” A professor I used to know once saw the...

Remember Your Death So That You Live Well

One year during Lent, I decided to follow a daily devotional entitled, Memento M...

The Instructions to Heaven Written on Our Hearts: Sixth...

Jesus told the crowd listening to Him on a mountain that their righteousness mus...

The New Law, Nourishment of the Heart

The Sermon on the Mount raises the moral bar, as it goes beyond the mere letter ...

Humility and Receptivity Needed in Catholic Dating

After writing an article last month for Catholic Exchange called “Love at First ...

“Look Me in the Eye:” Abortion Survivors, Super Bowl Sc...

Salt in its Blessedness You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. Do ...

How to Choose a Sacrifice this Lent

“The Glory of God is a human fully alive.” – St. Irenaeus of Lyons So, you’re th...

Cardinal Burke Visits Chalco and Sees Hope for the World

On a cold, Wisconsin night around Christmastime, Cardinal Raymond Burke recalled...

Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Perseverance

St. Francis de Sales, a Doctor of the Church, lived and ministered as a priest a...

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

For years I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my paternal grandmother by beco...

A Baseball Fan Answers: Should Confession Ever Be Delayed?

Theodore Samuel Williams, aka the “Splendid Splinter,” was my childhood hero. He...

Death as the Culmination of Christ’s Work in Our Lives

In the Catholic tradition, life and death are companions on a shared journey tow...

The Stories We Tell Ourselves—and the Story That Saves Us

The Power of Stories Great stories have a way of captivating us. Stories like J....

How and Why Some Angels Fell from Grace

In a previous article, we looked at why Adam and Eve, whom God created full of g...

Healing the Priesthood After the Scandals

When the opportunity presented itself for me to read and review Rebuilding Trust...

We Are Blessed So As To Bless Others: Fifth Sunday in O...

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus promised blessing on those willing to follow H...

3 Principles for Interpreting Scripture

Recently I had a conversation with an older gentleman who has had a serious spir...