There’s no denying that the Church is under attack. Not a day goes by without some new controversy involving the clergy, the pope, or even attacks on physical churches. With clergy—who are supposed to be our shepherds—involved in so much on-going scandal, it can feel...
The month of June marks the anniversary of the death of “the Apostle of Common Sense”, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, most notably known as G.K. Chesterton. In a time when an hyper-sensitive culture needs more common sense than ever before, we should be reading...
The period between Memorial Day and the official start of the summer can make even the most patient person, well, impatient and bored. Students (and the parents of grade school children) are counting down the days until the last day of the school year. Those who work...
It’s still Easter. We Catholics like to party—for a while! After rising from the dead, but before the Ascension, Jesus was so kind and affectionate to want nothing more than to visit the holy women, Mary Magdalen, the disciples of Emmaus, the Apostles, and his...
Flannery O’Connor was a 20th century Catholic Southern writer of many short stories and novels, including A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Parker’s Back, The Displaced Person, and more. Her influence on modern fiction and her deep...
