Have you ever found yourself blindsided by Ash Wednesday? One day you are going about your business, perhaps even eating the last of the candy canes and still sweeping pine needles out of the corners of the living room, when you happen to glance at the calendar on the...
Nestled in the Italian countryside, with a view of the Adriatic Sea, is a small town set high on a hill named Loreto. It would perhaps be yet another quaint, but otherwise unremarkable small Italian village if not for a rather curious and miraculous house that,...
Baptism. The Sacrament often taken for granted. Many of us, unless having converted in adulthood, don’t remember our Baptisms. Yet, for each and every Baptized Christian, it is arguably the most important day of our lives. Through Baptism we are grafted into the...
Religious art has evolved over the centuries, ever since the first crude depictions of martyrdom were etched and drawn in catacombs. At some point symbolism and artistic license became more common in religious art, which leaves us with some rather burning questions....
“When you gossip about a person it means you have removed the person from your heart. But be aware, when you remove a man from your heart, Jesus also goes away from your heart with that man.” – St. Padre Pio “If something uncharitable is said...
