“Make everything you can a sacrifice.”—The Angel of Portugal to the three Fatima children Sacrifice stands before us as the hidden key to life. The word itself may sound frightening, conjuring images of blood, destruction […]
Classical education has exploded in the last ten years, and for good reason. Education has descended into a utilitarian pursuit, though an ineffective one at that. By focusing primarily on career readiness, we have sunk […]
After writing about mission and the call to holiness, I was asked to answer this question: “How did extraordinary ministers of holy communion become so ordinary? Did the Second Vatican Council call the laity to take up active […]
“The most powerful experience at the National Eucharistic Congress was the Adoration, Father. Tens of thousands of people all turned intently toward the Lord in silence. My wife and I both felt like we had […]
Why aren’t we holy? God, in fact, wills that we become holy: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thess 4:3). So why aren’t we? The problem surely does not lie with […]
Temptations in a fallen city, memories of a beautiful woman, a poisoned chalice, the attacks of an envious priest, curses from a pagan priest, a rock that won’t budge, another that falls on a young […]
“Dad, I’m sorry I haven’t been in better touch.” We were sitting on the porch late at night, two blocks from the beach, with the waves and sounds of the boardwalk within earshot. “I know […]
We shook on it. After too many moves, my wife and I committed to move once more into a small cabin on the land. After years of false starts, it finally happened, as I wrote back […]
While Lent offers us a clear path of conversion, turning away from the world, Easter invites us into God’s own life. In Lent, we seek to die with Christ; in Easter, we must live with […]
“Destroy this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days.” This mysterious statement led, in part at least, to Christ’s death, brought forward in the conflicting witness of his trial before the Sanhedrin. This […]
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