Catholic Journal

The Lord’s Ascension: Our Glory and Hope

Even if it is incorrect because the earth is spherical, instinctively we look up in the sky whenever we think of heaven, and we look down into the bowels of the earth whenever we think of hell. As always, the...

The Best and the Favorite

My children sometimes talk about things Tom and I got right in our parenting. It’s a blessing that they notice these things and hope to include them in their own parenting. The most recent example of this is...

All Essays

The Logic of True Love

Now that the feast of St Valentine is over it is wise to reconnect with the greatest values which make our lives all the more meaningful. One such value is love. When the concept and practice of love has become so much...

The Challenge of Discipleship

A young man in San Francisco named Kevin was involved in what could have been a tragic event—but fortunately his story turned out to have a happy ending. He had been deeply depressed as a teenager, and at the age of...

Collagen for Our Prayer

Warning: Statements made in this article are not supported by either Doctors of the Church nor medicine… My knees hurt. Age, arthritis, sports… who knows why. Besides routine aches, I also notice this joy of aging when...

Opening Ourselves to Jesus’ Miracles

We are swamped with words. Some poisonous like gossip; some devastating like slander; others unsettling like rumors and criticism. Most of them, though, are empty and meaningless, hot air—precisely. How many millions of...

Welcoming Our Next Battles

But who will endure the day of his coming? For he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. …He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi… (from the first reading, Malachi...