True story -the other day I had this conversation with my teenage daughters: While they are quite wrong (especially if you are reading this after September 23rd), people have long been fascinated with the end of the world, death, judgement and what is to come in the...
In 1862, The Vienne Post said that there was a book that  “deserves a distinguished place in all Christian libraries, and should be on the table of every pious family that faithfully preserves and celebrates the memory of its deceased members.” The book...
We all do, at least implicitly. And I would wager that if more people understood what the Catholic Church means when it speaks of purgatory, they would find themselves compelled to also acknowledge its existence. Too many people speak of purgatory as a...
