It May Be Irrational, But It’s Human
I begin with this piece on an experiment on “magical thinking.” Rationalists, always so optimistic about how rational human beings want to …
Category Archives: Spirituality
Lest the Cross Be Emptied of Its Power
While working on some other project I was skimming through Pope St. John Paul II’s wonderful work Veritatis splendor. The …
Mary, Mother of God
Today is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. It is the Octave of Christmas, the eighth day. It is …
“The Urging of Christ’s Love” Now for Sale
Here it is: my first book The Urging of Christ’s Love: The Saints and the Social Teaching of the Catholic …
Life, Dignity and Disability
The audio of my presentation on Saint Germaine Cousin of Pibrac is now available for purchase from St. Joseph Media. …
Reclaiming a Sense of the Faith
Here’s my piece at The Catholic Answer on the New Evangelization.
St. Germaine and the Healthy Life
Here is piece on St. Germaine Cousin for the Truth and Charity Forum run by Human Life International (HLI).
Heaven Meets Earth: Watch This
Airing this Tuesday April 30th, 2013 on EWTN at 6:30 ET/5:30 CT is the story of a parish on the …
A Simple Prayer Method From a Simple Pontiff
Did you know that Cardinal Bergoglio provided his people with a simple way to pray using your own hand as …
Austrian farmer’s life reflects citizenship in God’s kingdom
Here is my piece in The Catholic Voice on Blessed Franz Jäggerstätter.
St. Joseph for The Common Good
Check out my post on St. Joseph’s Feast, the occupy movement and labor unions over at CatholicVote.org http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=29699
A Way of Salvation: St. Joseph the Workman and Labor
We should keep before us the fact that it was in the labor of St. Joseph that he worked out his salvation. He used what he got, and we now recognize him worldwide as a model for the just man.
To Rise With Christ, the Feast of Bl. James Oldo of Lodi
This second thing, then, is that whatever “getting my life in order” means it probably involves loving the poor, the lame, the dying, the sick with a greater zeal than what I have now.
Trust in the Lord: The Feast of St. Francis de Sales
The remedy to Barack Obama is not the Republican Party, or the Tea Party, or the Constitution Party or any party. It is the realization that we are sinners in need of a savior who has already so wonderfully revealed his Mercy that we can do nothing else but to respond with a joyous yes.
Two Lessons from St. Anthony of the Desert
Let us pray to St. Anthony for the courage to resist the devil with the fervor of a follower of Christ and for the grace to display that same courage as we remind our political leaders about their obligations to justice, the poor, and their own eternal souls.