4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1208+ words) Everything I am going to reveal to you in this article is true. It happened to me, and it changed the very trajectory of my life for the good. It occurred in the summer of 1995. My grandfather, who helped raise…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago  (468+ words) Unless I see the mark of the nails in His hands and put my finger into the nail marks and put my hand into His side, I will not believe. These are the words of St. Thomas when his fellow…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago  (1113+ words) We're taught that our mistakes don't define us and that we can recover from our falls. If we fall down 100 times, we just need to get up 101 times." But fairy tales aren't like that. In fairy tales, there's one thing…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (618+ words) In John's Gospel, Jesus addresses the religious leaders of his day, "Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (499+ words) I was scrolling through my Instagram page for campus ministry the other day and stumbled on a well-known social media type telling people we don't need to encourage vocations to religious life and the priesthood. He implied that they would…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (892+ words) A Jesuit priest with a crown of thorns on his head, lying on his back and strapped to a wooden cross, is pushed out into the river by Paraguayan natives. That is the opening scene of the 1986 movie The Mission....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (987+ words) Dr. Donald De Marco is Professor Emeritus, St. Jerome's University and Adjunct Professor at Holy Apostles College. He is is the author of 42 books, a former corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of Life, and a Member of the Advisory…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (435+ words) Similarly, while living as a gay man, my best friend and I often discussed whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Despite leaving our religion, we both felt deeply that marriage was not meant for same-sex couples. The Church's…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (487+ words) Few words in contemporary Catholic discourse are used more often, and more carelessly, than conscience. How many times have we heard it? "I have to follow my conscience." Very often, the phrase is treated as if it ends the discussion....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (761+ words) Peter got up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened. (Lk. 24: 12) One spring, a full solar eclipse was forecast to come into view over a…...