On my journey into the Catholic church there were three things that had the potential to derail me: Mary, Mary, and Mary. One of the objections I had, which sprang from my Baptist days, was this title. After all, God is eternal and has always existed. That title, at...
“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...
When it comes to serious sin that can cut us off from sanctifying grace, we tend to think of the more overt types of sin: the ones that we hear about in the news or the ones that we have had engrained in our minds ever since we set foot in CCD class or youth group....
There are many things that may come to an individual’s mind when it comes to sacred scripture. Some may ask why there are so many translations. Some may wonder if the Bible as we know it fell from the sky at Pentecost. However many have questions on how we have the...
Bishop Barron recently came under attack on social media for what he had said regarding the St. Junipero Serra statue vandalism and removals happening in California. A Although this wasn’t the first (or last time) Bishop Barron has had to face criticism over his...
On a hot summer morning, as the story goes, sometime just before 1150, Guigo, a Carthusian of the Grande Chartreuse was hard at work in the garden of his cell when he was struck by the image of prayer found deep in the bowels of the Old Testament. As he meditated on...
