Call No Man Father…Including Saint Joseph?

One of the age-old objections that Protestants have to the Catholic priesthood is known as the “Call No Man Father” Argument, which runs something...

Lent with the Fathers of the Church and Some Spiritual Writers

Lent is a privileged time in the liturgical year, preparing us for the celebration of Easter. However, our whole life should be a journey...

The Good Shepherd Never Leaves His Flock

Has any one of you been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively that...

Eighteenth Sunday and Setting Our Sights On What is Above

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...

Thirty-Second Sunday: Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell

Now He is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to Him all of them are alive. (Lk. 20:38) ⧾ As we...

Fifth Sunday: The Salt of the Earth and Light to the World

‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden’ (Mt. 5:14). Imagine the astonishment of those who heard...

The Cross in the Father’s Providential Plan

One of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. He who saw this has testified...

God, Atheism, and Becoming Like Little Children

Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18:3). Though many of...

The Pieta’s Anamnesis: Memory and Consolation in the Eternal City

A visit to Rome prompts the author to reflect upon his own journey to Catholicism. It was not rational argument that shipwrecked the mind...

Darwin’s Sad Legacy

No one doubts that modern science is a wonderful thing; but no one also doubts that it is a terrible thing. Modern factories everywhere...