“The thing about microchimerism…”
I’ll assume that some of you have never heard of microchimerism. I had not till just a few years ago and I’m what many might call somewhat chronologically mature. …
Category: Catholic Thought
I can’t get no satisfaction and how Catholicism can solve that problem
I love conversion stories, particularly those that align in particular ways with my own reversion back to the faith after straying for over 40 years. I’ve chronicled in …
From desires, from fear, deliver me
I’ve recently, within the last month or so, decided to scale a mountain. A very high mountain… for me. And note I said scale, which means not just climb …
“As it abandons Christianity, America is diminished under the weight of bad religion.”
You’d have to live in a cave not to realize we’ve entered with gusto the political season. The trek toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has begun and in earnest. Many (too …
The spiritual muscle that is your soul needs exercising
Bishop Elect Robert Barron, who I’ll be seeing in person next week, has a must read up over at The Catholic World Report: A few months ago, I spent …
I suck at being holy.
The Scriptures call the faithful to holiness: Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance but, as he who called you is holy, …
“… in those countries where God is most denied, man is most tyrannized…”
“There has never been an anti-American movement in the United States that did not, in one form or another, appeal to the Declaration of Independence. Communists base their right …
“What makes this sort of startling violence against human beings possible, I would submit, is the attenuation of our sense of God’s existence.”
A third video has been released by the Center for Medical Progress and I’m hearing it contains material that will turn any human with a soul’s stomach. Yes, I …
“The Catholic intellectual tradition is extremely rich, especially around the questions of God”
The more I listen to Fr. Barron, the more I want to listen to him… and the more I embrace my Catholic faith. What follows is a sample lesson …
‘Government “social programs” are a redistribution of wealth and a manifestation of covetuousnes (a sin).’
That comment left as a response to this post a few days ago, one seemingly radical to many of us but a notion gaining steam in certain quarters. It’s one …