I’ve grown in friendship with this remarkable saint a lot since visiting the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Colorado earlier this fall. The more I’ve read about her, the more I’ve realized the surprising paradoxes that pepper her story! 1. The...
The spiritual fruit of Pope St. John Paul II’s fatherhood continues to spill out, years after his death. One way in which we see this harvest is in the abundance of ministries founded on his spirituality. These ministries run the full spectrum of the human...
St. John Henry Newman was born in the city of London in 1801. He was strong in his Anglican faith in his youth, and by the age of 24, had already become a cleric in the Church of England. As a young man he pursued his studies at Trinity College in Oxford, and it was...
It is well-nigh impossible to be well-read these days without at least knowing the names of the English writers G. K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien has captured the imagination of the world through his great epic, The Lord of the Rings, and the at times...
Beauty and the Beast is a timeless tale that many of us cherish from our childhood. As with all good fairy stories, there are layers of meaning and analogy that can be gleaned from it. But have you ever considered it under the lens of evangelization? When taken as a...
