The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote: "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree". When a new sapling is coming up, people will often...

This is not a criticism of traditionalism (or of the Latin Mass in particular). I greatly appreciate the traditional faith and openly...

If you were at daily Mass this last Tuesday, then you already heard me tell this story. It bears repeating. There was a man who was...

"Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.“ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

What is the difference between people who participate in Mass and those who just sit quietly and basically disengage from what is going...

Yes, it is true that Pope Francis once said "homosexuality is a sin", but apparently he then qualified it to say, "extramarital sex is a...

What does it mean to be "open to God"? I know someone (who I pray for regularly that he would come back to holiness) who claims to be...

I once read a story about some Knights in the middle ages. The met up with a man at one point in the story who had never been trained in...

History is helpful, when we pay attention to it. Sometimes we learn all the wrong lessons from history. Many people today throw around...

I came across and odd article the other day. It was describing how to wake up. It gave details on eye exercises, stretches, etc. Quite...

"Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine of salvation, not a punishment of damnation." St. Augustine

It was St. John Chrysostom who said that it is not enough to remove an arrow from the body, but the wound also must be healed or the...

In the Old Testament before the coming of Christ, the sacrifices that the Temple Priests performed served in a way similar to the...

What is an act of contrition? I did not ask, what is "the" Act of Contrition. What I mean by that is we need to understand the action of...

The only thing worse than willingly to go to Confession and intentionally withhold confessing a grave sin, is choosing not to go to...

The Church has gone through a number of changes in how she practices the Sacrament of Confession down through the last 2000 years. It was...

Statistics say that the Sacrament of Confession is, of all Sacraments, practiced the least. In my experience (including testimony from...

"The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep...

I like reading history. About 20 years ago I read a book, a long book, on the history of ancient Byzantium. Ancient Byzantium was a...

Have you ever found that you were using something incorrectly? Maybe you found you were holding a tool incorrectly, or that you were...