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 …
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Home is for Wild Hearts
The family is the fundamental cell of society because it reflects the raw, relational truth of the human person, a truth that points us back to God.
The Feeding of the 5,000, a Reflection on Social Justice
The efforts on behalf of the poor have to revolve around people and not populations, around personal needs and not issues, around an encounter with the living Christ and not around a hope for a utopian future where Jesus is reduced to the radical next door.
Why Beatrix Potter is Awesome
These stories of Beatrix Potter are very often morality tales, and just the sort of tales that our children ought to be hearing.
Eucharistic Solidarity: a Reflection on Corpus Christi
The Eucharist provides us with the opportunity for a solidarity with the world that is unmatched and unheard of.
The Heart of the World
This was a difficult Lent, and not just because of the impending birth of our third child, the stress that …
The Simple Formula of Love
One woman. One baby. One on one. It’s the beautiful calculus that Mother Teresa taught us.
Immigration…It’s About the Right to Life
Wherein I address the question of immigrant and ask why it is so very difficult for Catholics to understand why the bishops have the position they do on this issue.
What We Can Learn From The Divine Office, or, Why Culture Matters
I was recently asked to answer a question about the structure of the rosary, which got me to speaking about …
Solidarity
Pray for the people of Japan. There will be plenty of opportunities for giving money and sending supplies. We must …
Lessons on Lying, or, How I Could Be Wrong Too.
Wherein I share my thoughts on this whole question of lying and Live Action.
Christ is Still the Answer
The Enlightenment and its ideas of near-total moral relativism created the stuff of Hitler and Stalin. “Without God,” as Dostoevsky wrote, “all things are permitted.”
Giovanni and His Rome Beneath the Surface
Young Giovanni had a talent for letters. A piece marble with ancient writing on it would propel him through a series of events that would change his life and ours. Read about it
here.
The Good News for The Poor
Hope for the poor is in Christ Jesus, in their and our encounter with Him, and not in the promises of political parties or community organizations that pledge caring attention to the needs of the poor. Christ, the Good News, reveals to us ourselves and thus our real needs…needs detached from news cycles and election years. This is why Popes Paul VI, John Paul the Great, and Benedict XVI all say that the social doctrine is evangelizaton and evangelization fulfills the social doctrine.
St. Ambrose, Model Bishop
Some years ago, as I was fishing about trying to find a suitable topic for my master’s thesis, I …