A Simple Prayer Method From a Simple Pontiff
Did you know that Cardinal Bergoglio provided his people with a simple way to pray using your own hand as …
Category Archives: Spirituality
Austrian farmer’s life reflects citizenship in God’s kingdom
Here is my piece in The Catholic Voice on Blessed Franz Jäggerstätter.
St. Joseph for The Common Good
Check out my post on St. Joseph’s Feast, the occupy movement and labor unions over at CatholicVote.org http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=29699
A Way of Salvation: St. Joseph the Workman and Labor
We should keep before us the fact that it was in the labor of St. Joseph that he worked out his salvation. He used what he got, and we now recognize him worldwide as a model for the just man.
To Rise With Christ, the Feast of Bl. James Oldo of Lodi
This second thing, then, is that whatever “getting my life in order” means it probably involves loving the poor, the lame, the dying, the sick with a greater zeal than what I have now.
Trust in the Lord: The Feast of St. Francis de Sales
The remedy to Barack Obama is not the Republican Party, or the Tea Party, or the Constitution Party or any party. It is the realization that we are sinners in need of a savior who has already so wonderfully revealed his Mercy that we can do nothing else but to respond with a joyous yes.
Two Lessons from St. Anthony of the Desert
Let us pray to St. Anthony for the courage to resist the devil with the fervor of a follower of Christ and for the grace to display that same courage as we remind our political leaders about their obligations to justice, the poor, and their own eternal souls.
The Day Mother Teresa Put a Communist In His Place
There is a story that I heard a couple of days ago that I find just so thrillingly wonderful I …
When a Good Man Passes
And I will always remember that when a good man like him passes away a different sort of miracle makes itself present.
Pope St. Leo the Great on God’s Generosity and Ours
The following is one of the best explanations of a central principle of the social doctrine I’ve ever read. The principle is the Universal Destination of Goods.
The Little Soul of St. Martin de Porres
St. Martin de Porres should also remind us of the same stuff that St. Thérèse of Lisieux does, which is that love is best lived when we are smallest.
Out of Darkness, Light: St. Francis Borgia
From out of one of the worst Papacies in the history of the Church comes today’s great saint, without whom …
Justice vs. Charity from Pope St. Gregory the Great
Today the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great provides for the very important lesson that there is a grand difference between justice and charity and that what you might think is mercy is actually justice.
The Martyrs of the September Massacre
Imagine a slaughter of over 1,200 people in two days, almost 200 hundred of them Catholic priests. Imagine a slaughter …
St. John Marie Vianney and the Horror of Sin
Today is the feast of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, and so I think it a very good time to …