It might be difficult to soar above what seems a rather prosaic description of the Ascension of...
Years ago, there was a country doctor in rural Oklahoma who was known for his dedication to the...
We rarely notice how quickly it happens. We meet someone for the first time, or even reconnect with someone we have known for years, and almost reflexively the question emerges: “What do you do?” It is meant to be...
Holy Mother Church has given us this page of John’s gospel (John 20: 19-31) so that we may be among the blessed ones. She wants us to be among those who, although they have not seen, have believed, nonetheless. She...
Certain truths are so robustly self-evident that they often transcend being espoused by only one faith tradition. Many not only transcend Abrahamic faith traditions, or Western religions, but are likewise held by...
Part one of this essay discussed two ways of growing closer to God. This continuation will discuss further ways to achieve that closeness. ONE WAY TO GROW CLOSER TO GOD IS TO LIVE BY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, which are as...
One of the greatest political activists, novelists, and historians of the 20th century was the Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died in 2008. He chronicled the evil and repressive history of the former Soviet...
God’s greatness is vast beyond our comprehension. He knows every gift bestowed on every person throughout time, as well as every person’s thoughts and deeds, successes and failures, acts of virtue and of sin...
“Have you observed that, if you have worked for or with a person of deep faith in Christ, you have always been treated with gentleness, equality and charity? You could not point to a single person who truly loves God...
The American Spectator recently published an essay by S. A. McCarthy titled “The Church’s Misguided Mercy.” It began by quoting the U.S. Bishops Conference’s chairman of migration, Bishop Brendan...
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