My wife and I play a game with our two year old son. It involves catching a fish. You never know if it’s gonna be a little, tiny fish – or a great, big whale of a fish. You can play this game on the bed, on the floor, pretty much anywhere. To begin, you [...]
What is the most intimate union we can have with God on this Earth? What did Jesus specifically ask us to do until He comes again? What did He say we must do in order to have eternal life? To whom shall we go? What is the primary way God gave us to commune with [...]
We’re immersed in a pop-Christian culture that ruminates with an aversion to “works” being any part of the economy of salvation. The idea that we have to “do” anything to be forgiven and to be “saved” is falsely viewed by many as somehow taking away from or rendering deficient God’s power and sacrifice to save [...]
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. I have compared it with the New Religions; but this is exactly where it differs from the New Religions. The New Religions are in many ways suited to the new conditions; but they [...]
Here’s a little poem I wrote as a hypothetical future elegy for Marriage. It’s partially modeled after Niemöller’s famous “First they came…” statement. And it’s to point out that our culture has already been “redefining” marriage in numerous ways for a long time now. — First, they said it was no longer ’til death, and [...]
The Church spends a lot of time talking about the poor. As we should. But we often forget who the truly poor actually are. This is where the social justice movement frequently goes wrong. It sometimes mistakenly puts a temporal justice ahead of eternal justice, seeking to satisfy temporal impoverishment while disregarding a more important [...]
We have a modern snobbishness that has reduced religion to a personal preference. One huge problem with that is that once a religion becomes merely a product of your own personal preference, it’s no longer able to do what it is meant to do: Transform you. There is no use for it anymore other than [...]
The complete and full definition of something is often much deeper than the words that attempt to articulate it. In other words, how we define something may only express a mere part of the reality of the object being defined. That may be because we simply don’t know much about it yet. Or it may [...]
Many people insist on a simple religion…or otherwise a simple philosophy on life. If you don’t want to defend yourself often, the easiest thing is to simply not believe in much. It’s part laziness and part busy-ness. We’re too busy with media and with constantly reacting to a world that is daily and relentlessly thrust [...]
