Is there sex in Heaven? Peter Kreeft, the renowned Philosophy professor at Boston College, addressed this loaded question many years ago. On its surface this sounds like an easy question since most Americans spend an inordinate time thinking about...
One of the strangest triple plays in baseball history happened to the old Brooklyn Dodgers at their home park of Ebbets Field over seventy years ago. The Dodgers had runners on first and second with no outs; the batter hit a deep fly ball to the...
Every year, the Catholic Church feels the need to tackle the toughest mystery of our faith, the mystery of the Holy Trinity, as a way for us to remain aware of our smallness coexisting with our unfathomable greatness within God’s embrace. It is the...
Over the centuries the Virgin Mary has allegedly appeared to many different saints, mystics, and ordinary Catholics—and one of the first recorded instances of this occurred in the 3rd century to a young man named Gregory. He had been born a pagan...
The solemnity of the Holy Trinity offers the perfect opportunity for me to talk about a spiritual exercise that I find quite helpful. Now and then, without even taking into consideration our ever-expanding universe and the inconsequential smallness...
Once upon a time, a saintly hermit and his young disciple were building a simple house for themselves alongside a river. However, at one point when the young man swung his ax, the head came loose from the handle, flew into the river, and sank out of...
There are three paths to knowledge that we frequently walk… thinking using concepts, thinking using pictures or images, and thinking using our experiences. They are all routes to truth even though experience seems to be the favored route these days...
A great but little-known saint of the 3rd century was St. Gregory of Neocaesaria—an ancient city located north of modern-day Turkey. When Gregory became bishop of that wealthy but immoral city around the year 238, there were only seventeen...
