Simple as that
What does it mean to be human? What is the existential situation of man? These questions are intensely relevant to our daily lives, to how we express ourselves and enter into relationships with one another. They are not lofty subjects out of touch with the real world, and the questions of the heart...Read full story »
Thursday, May 23, 2019
The True Meaning of Poverty
“For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category. No, it is a theological category. I would say, perhaps the first category, because God, the Son of God, abased Himself, made Himself poor to walk with us on the road. And this is our poverty: the poverty of...Read full story »
Thursday, May 23, 2019
All the news that's fit to print
“Wife Returned After Having Fine Funeral.” The headline of a 483-word story in the March 15, 1904, edition of The New York Times bore a sly nod to Tom Sawyer. A man named Ignacio Valente was charging the city with a funeral bill he had been wrongfully issued, according to the Time...Read full story »
Thursday, May 02, 2019
How did your Lent go?
How did your Lent go? Mine wasn’t exactly as planned. If you followed your Lenten resolutions to a T, that’s awesome – and now you have the Easter season to celebrate; if you didn’t, that’s ok—you now have the Easter season to celebrate! God is ever present in ou...Read full story »
Thursday, May 02, 2019
Reality check: the ordinary is extraordinary
I am afraid that I mention Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI) “Introduction to Christianity” too frequently, and I refrain from referencing it on many occasions because I don’t want to cheapen it. I don’t want “Intro” to become meaning...Read full story »
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Let's lose control
I'm tired of society being so contradictory. I see the extreme New York abortion laws, states battling for varying levels of legality for killing unborn children, and other arguments on social media and in my workplace to elevate women's "rights" above all else. Yet on Pinterest last week...Read full story »
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
Feed the passion of your faith
As a cradle Catholic who was blessed enough to attend Catholic schools for 12 years, I thought I was a pretty good at being a Catholic. After choosing to attend the University of Evansville, I thought to myself, “This may not be a Catholic university, but you have trained 12 years for this. Y...Read full story »
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
God understands us best
Sometimes, we can feel desperate in our attempts to be understood. Our various methods of communication are shallow when we need depth. Our deepest desires are to be known and loved, so a lack of effective communication makes us feel isolated. Our words are hapless attempts to translate o...Read full story »
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
It's time
It’s time. For me, it seems like the Christmas season glided so quickly into Ordinary Time, and how soon Ordinary Time is coming to a close—Lent begins next week! It’s time to pray about how we can enter the desert and prepare for the resurrection of Christ. Although Lent is diffi...Read full story »
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Trusting in God's Unfailing Love
A friend of mine recently sent me a handwritten copy of the Litany of Trust. It starts out with the words, “From the belief that I have to earn Your love: Deliver me, Jesus.” After I read this, my heart stopped. The truth of this one statement spoke to me so clearly that I knew in an in...Read full story »
Thursday, February 28, 2019
