Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his...
We are closing this liturgical year with the celebration of the Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe and our readings prove beyond any doubt that, out of love for us, Jesus Christ gave up his royal status to...
About 120 years ago, a woman entered a New York City department store during a heavy storm, wet and disheveled from the weather. Because business was slow that day, the sales clerks had gathered together and were...
In grade school the nuns taught us that our bodies were temples of the Holy Ghost. I don’t know how many really understood what the teaching meant, though it did sound really cool to most of us. I often wonder if they...
One of the current themes which characterise Pope Francis’s magisterium is surely the life concept of closeness. I am purposely opting to call closeness and qualify it as a life concept. Faith has to do with real life...
Why do you exist and what are you going to do about it? That is your personal mission. To go forward on a personal mission that will give you direction and clear intentions. By recognizing our values and strengths we...
The allegory of the ten virgins is another clever way devised by Jesus to simplify for us our longing for admission to the endless Wedding Feast of Heaven. This is how we could put this longing into modern terms...
I hope never to make the mistake of using “we” when I mean “I” in my writing. I am often annoyed at writers who believe that because they have some particular vice means we all share it. This certainly annoys...
(I previously wrote “St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy Devotion” for Catholic Journal. This is a continuation of my thoughts on Divine Mercy.) Divine Mercy is a tremendous gift from God. It is undeserved...
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