"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." St. Thomas Aquinas

I once read a story about some Catholics who went through a horrible persecution by a totalitarian regime. They had to do without Mass...

I asked a question. No answer. I asked it again. Still no answer. I waited a few more seconds and tried a third time. Nothing. My...

Earlier this month was the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga (June 3rd). Years ago he and a number of his companions were martyred because...

A father once came to me in distress because one of his children had left the faith as soon as he moved out on his own (a common...

I saw a video of a man who crashed his first bike just minutes after purchasing it; he was clearly not handling that motorcycle rightly....

Scripture says love does not keep a record of wrongs (cf 1 Corinthians 13). Do you keep a record of your own wrongs by dwelling on sins...

"The dress of the body should not discredit the good of the soul." St. Cyprian

He said to his friend, "all that dark ages stuff, like kneeling for communion and receiving on the tongue, that's just an archaic and...

I wonder what it would be like if we had a spiritual-weather webpage? It could tell us that with the current state of events, there is a...

I just had a totally unbelieveable experience. I sent an email to a customer service department for a product I bought (that was not...

Do protestants spend far too much time focused on Scripture and not enough time on Jesus Himself? I cannot speak for every single one of...

"You must get an education!" You hear people say it all the time nowadays. Looking at the full weight of the admonition, I am a bit...

Someone showed me a video recently of a group of Catholics singing a song to the Blessed Virgin. As I often say, I do not know their...

"A faint faith is better than a strong heresy." St. Thomas More

There is one more detail that I ought to mention to help with understanding the misuse of conscience. I know someone who uses his...

I have not read Dante's Divine Comedy in its entirety, but were he to have written it today, there would definitely be a special circle...

When I was in college (1992) I took a class called "critical thinking". It was essentially a class in logic with a sprinkling of social...

The church has a theological attitude unknown in any other sect or group I know of: a middle between rejected and accepted -- the...

Have you ever been distracted by spiritual things? We all have at one time or another, and I have written about this before. The danger...