Catholic Journal

God is Making Us an Offer We Cannot Refuse

Walking through the woods in late April, with my eyes strained to spot spring mushrooms, I was...

In the Company of à Kempis

My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the...

All Essays

Does Truth Change?

Heraclitus famously observed, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” This observation (and other considerations) led Heraclitus to conclude, “There is nothing...

To Live is To Learn

There are several lessons that can be taken from our readings for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, but the one that stands out in my mind is the one that demonstrates a failure in life that we all experience at times...

Receiving the Lord in Holy Communion

We will do everything that the Lord has told us.[…] All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do. Twice the old community of Israel solemnly promised God to obey His ordinances, decrees, statutes and commandments...

Why Are Americans So Depressed?

Depression is estimated to cost Americans more than $210 billion dollars each year in medication to treat depression. Depression is widespread and getting worse. Just the cost in the decline in the quality of life is...

Pondering Pentecost

The Near-Death Experience Research Foundation claims that more than 15 million Americans have had a Near-Death Experience (NDE); that is, they have come close to death or experienced clinical death as established by no...