Catholic Journal

Divergence in Daycare

Before proceeding, let me clarify the purpose of this reflection. Daycare in a time of genuine...

Regarding Fraternal Correction

Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...

All Essays

All Good Things Come in Three

Once a priest was in an airport, waiting for his flight to be called; as sometimes happens, a stranger came up and began sharing his opinions on religion. The man boasted, “I won’t accept anything I can’t understand...

Markets and Their Day of Reckoning

A worse-than-expected inflation report released Friday spooked the Federal Reserve into contemplating steeper-than-expected interest rate hikes on Monday. That in turn spooked traders into a stock sell-off, driving the...

An Eternal Conversation

When Eternal God speaks to Himself, he sings in Algebra! If God were to harbor a single stray thought, He could sketch out Newtonian Motion. If He were to author a temporal treatise, it would be written perfectly in the...

Living Within the Holy Trinity

The solemnity of the Holy Trinity tackles the principal and hardest mystery of our faith by showing us that God is a community of love and life. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are in this timeless, everlasting...

Trusting in the Power of the Holy Spirit

If we, westerners, had been in the Upper Room on the morning of Pentecost Day we would have had a hard time trying to sort things out and decipher God’s message. Not so for the disciples gathered in it with the Blessed...

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

It is another Monday morning. The weekend was great but not long enough. The hustle and bustle of the day has begun. You are rushing to get off to work to avoid the morning traffic. You have driven to work so many times...