When the Novus Ordo Missae was first promulgated, it was presumed, almost assumed, that a simplification of the liturgy would mean that the ...

Like most Christians, I was completely unaware that the pure and devoted friendship of David and Jonathan as recorded in the book of 1 Samue...

A slight adjustment of the dates of the Scholastic Theology Summer Program which I mentioned recently has been made necessary. The new dates...

As we prepare to embark upon the journey of Lent, it is fitting to reflect on the importance of the sacrament of penance, especially in its ...

For the past month, I have been slogging through Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's monumental tome Light in Darkness , subtitled, "Hans Urs vo...

In the Gospel, our Lord warns us: " And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synago...

Dear readers, Please allow me to introduce you to a superb opportunity this coming Summer. Yours truly, together with a couple of colleagues...

To call St. Henrik obscure is only possible to an English speaking Catholic. For us, he is so obscure that he does not even have an entry in...

In my previous posts on the Church Fathers and their general reliability as authentic interpreters of the truths of the Gospel, we have loo...

I suppose this post is more of a question than a commentary. I have often noted that penances imposed by most confessors these days are a bi...

In the Diocese of Lansing, we have this magazine called FAITH that gets mailed out for free to the household of every regular Catholic. Thou...

The year 2011 was my first year since I began this blog that I was not employed by the parish as a DRE and Youth Director, so I had a lit...

St. Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua is one of those films that you always see in the Catholic film catalog and wonder if it is any g...