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

This Happy Easter

From time to time we learn of heroic people who, moved with genuine love, try to save someone who is drowning or trapped inside a burning building. In some cases their altruism ends in an added tragedy: both victim and...

Providence Fails Again

Recently, I wrote an article about two college professors from different historical time periods who experienced similar difficulties in their respective universities. One of the professors was Dr. Anthony Esolen...

Our Acceptance of the Cross

The opening prayer of Palm Sunday makes a lot of sense if we want to benefit spiritually from this Holy Week: Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to...

Sacrificing in the Name of Christ

Until it collapsed in 1991, the Soviet Union, or Communist Russia, was one of the most evil societies in human history; in terms of the number of lives ruined, and the millions of people it killed or persecuted, it...

The “Hour” of Our Test

In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death… (Hebrews 5:7) This powerful statement underlines boldly how...