Catholic Journal
Faith

A New Commandment

One of the worst sinking feelings we do not want to experience in our fast-paced world is pressing the ignition button and failing to hear the vrmmmm sound of our car awakening from its mechanical sleep.The readings (Is 55:1-3; Romans 8:35, 37-39);...

Fr Dino Vanin
2 days ago
Faith

Every Day We Are Given Opportunities to Make a Difference

Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and Rome, in addition...

Fr Joseph Esper
5 days ago

All Essays

Faith

As Long As We Have Faith in Him

One of the greatest political activists, novelists, and historians of the 20th century was the Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died in 2008. He chronicled the evil and repressive history of the former Soviet...

Fr Joseph Esper
4 months ago
Faith

Growing Closer to God

God’s greatness is vast beyond our comprehension. He knows every gift bestowed on every person throughout time, as well as every person’s thoughts and deeds, successes and failures, acts of virtue and of sin...

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Faith

Fresh, Living Water

Many years ago, a ship journeying across the Atlantic Ocean to South America was in great distress for a very simple reason: its supply of fresh water had run out. The crew was surrounded by sea water, but because of...

Fr Joseph Esper
5 months ago
Faith

The Gift of Living Water

The details of the narrative about the Samaritan woman are designed to bring us comfort and reassurance as we try to live out our Christian calling during Lent and throughout the year. (Jn 4:5-15,19b-26,39a,40-42) Even...

Fr Dino Vanin
Culture

Socrates’ Insights Continued

In my recent essay, Ancient Wisdom from Socrates, I discussed a number of insights that the brilliant thinker expressed more than two centuries ago, all of which are as relevant to the present time as they were to his...

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
5 months ago
Faith

Growth in Holiness

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-82) declared: “On what more delightful object can we fix our sight, than one who loves us to such a degree — on One who comprises all good things in Himself?” Our world so...

Deacon Steve Greco