Like the vampire in a mirror, there is a serious lack of reflection today on what one says… During the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen an e...

Introduction In my morning Bible reading, I’m at the point of 2 Chronicles where Asa and Ahab, in two separate incidents, consider the prop...

G.K. Chesterton, in his book What’s Wrong With the World  (Chapter IX), offers an account of two men—Hudge and Gudge—who desire to help the ...

One of the comments I often see in social media is the claim that confusion in the Church is unprecedented, and the fault of the Pope. I don...

Introduction I encounter some Catholics who tell me we’ve lost a lot since we stopped using Latin, stopped using ad orientem , stopped usin...

Introduction Pope Francis recently issued some words of wisdom about the division of ideology and the loss of respect . These divisions ar...

Introduction The Church, over the past two thousand years and including today, has continued her mission of being faithful to Our Lord’s te...

20  You sit and speak against your brother,  slandering your mother’s son.  21  When you do these things should I be silent?  Do you thi...

A good analysis of what leads anti-Catholics to believe and repeat bizarre and false rumors about the Catholic Church described it as a comb...

Catholics are called to be the light of the world and the city on a hill—in other words a visible beacon that shows others the way. Yet, inc...

The Pope has inspired many to rethink mercy. Where once they might have spoke in terms of sharp denunciations, they now try to show compassi...

There’s an old adage out there that, “ Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next .” I remember it being...

6  Then the Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why are you dejected? 7  If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies i...

24  Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!  25  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the o...

A troubling trend that shows political ideology leading to dissent from Church teaching is not limited to one faction is the contempt direct...

One trend I come across in social media is the claim that, before Pope Francis or before Vatican II, the Church and the Popes taught clearly...