Apologetics 101, Question 5: The Immortality of the Soul

In response to Catholic Insight’s post of Carl Sundell’s list of 39 essential questions we Catholics should be prepared to offer answers about our...

Pope Benedict and Elizabeth of Hungary

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 20 October 2010   Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to speak to you about one of...

The Unity of Contraries in Christianity

As a child, I was struck with a certain astonishment at the perverse and sometimes startling coincidence that opposites exist. I think most children...

Waiting and Knitting and Hoping

About twelve years ago, I learned how to knit. I learned the basics and then set it aside for a few years. Eventually, I...

Ukrainian Pysanky Eggs

From our archives, Sharon-Rose Milan - now Sharon-Rose Fraser, wife and mother - from years ago, in April. She is still an artist and...

Wood heat

Heating a house with skids has always seemed like a good idea to me, since these are free for the asking at almost every...

January Thaw, Bluffer’s Park, Lake Ontario

Francis Joseph Dvorak is an artist, art restorer and teacher. He studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, and painting in the atelier of...

The Sixth Love Language

We are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year, a gigantic milestone in our secular culture as we have been married almost three times as long as...

The Presence-Prayers of Children

There’s been quite a bit of media coverage lately about kiddies at Mass. One parish’s idea had made the Facebook rounds a while back:...

Here is the Lamb of God

Look, here is the Lamb of God. (Jn 1:35) This declaration made by John the Baptist and which we hear before the reception of Holy...