From time to time in the history of the Church, certain Christians have taken some good thing out of the deposit of Faith and fallen down in adoration before it as the only good thing there is. This is known as “heresy” and G.K. Chesterton describes its...
I used to fear Halloween. Before I became Catholic, I went to a small non-denominational church that said Halloween was an ancient pagan feast and you are opening yourself to Dark Satanic Powers if you celebrated it. Then I became Catholic and, among other things,...
One of the hardest things in the world is maintaining faith when other Christians, especially Christians you admire or look up to, let you down. I have friends who have struggled with real despair. I hear from converts wondering if they made a mistake joining the...
I live in a small post-war bedroom community north of Seattle. We moved here about 25 years ago and have loved our cozy hobbit hole ever since. It’s a three-bedroom cinder block house with a back yard for growing rambunctious little boys into large lumbering...
When we think of “greatness” we tend to think of realms like the political or the arts. Lincoln was a great President. The Beatles were a great rock band. Casablanca was a great film. Greatness is not necessarily co-terminous or identical with...
