When my wife and I moved our young family to Thailand almost ten years ago, the most obvious choice for our church was an English-speaking Redemptorist parish in downtown Bangkok, a stone’s throw from the […]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote in Colossians 3:14, “binds everything together in perfect harmony.” CCC 1828: “The practice of the moral life […]

One’s Molokai – “Catholic authors rarely speak of the untamed countryside in them. Their job is to write, not explain how. But their stories often come from low-clouded and cold places in them.” The Descent […]

I rarely acquiesce to feed the Mouse maw—though I would say that my approach has more of cultural curiosity in it than an incense-pinch to the Magic Kingdom. All this to say (or to confess), […]

In 1994, tragedy struck when a gunman walked into two Massachusetts abortion facilities and opened fire, killing two staff members and injuring five people. The gunman, John Salvi, had a history of mental illness and […]

The Opening Ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics was unlike the traditional ceremonies of the past. We’ve come to expect a display of talent–music and dance–licking off the week’s events. Following the opening acts, a […]