7+ hour, 29+ min 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....

7+ hour, 39+ min 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…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago  (389+ words) As a high school teacher, I am in a constant battle for my students" attention. My main nemesis: the smartphone. I am not one to vilify all tech or the use of tech as damaging. However, the trends that I…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (714+ words) Something strange is happening, there is a great stillness on earth today, a great silence and stillness. " So states an ancient sermon regarding Christ's descent into the netherworld. The earth trembled and is now still because God has fallen asleep…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (773+ words) There are among us so many who are poor and elderly, in need of our understanding, respect, love and compassion, especially if they are sick, handicapped, helpless or alone." " Mother Teresa I found myself wondering, why isn't my church home…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (755+ words) Imagine listening to a Bach fugue in which one of the opening voices introduces the theme but never returns. The subject is stated, the music unfolds, the harmony advances'yet a register of the composition seems strangely incomplete. The structure of…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (850+ words) There is a homily in the garden, if we still ourselves enough to hear it. It is the kind not preached with words, but received in the rhythms of sowing and reaping, in the new growth of spring and the…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (369+ words) Theologians traditionally teach three stages of deification, and we should familiarize ourselves with each as they will help us better imagine our journeys with God. By cooperating with grace, grace will purify our minds and bodies. This is the purgative…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (574+ words) If you don't remember anything else, remember this one thing!" A parent may use these words to emphasize an essential piece of advice given to a child. An employer may do the same when entrusting an employee with an important…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (492+ words) For those of us who celebrated the Easter Vigil'with its nine readings and eight psalms, its celebrations of Pascal fire and light and water, its sacraments of baptism and Eucharist, lasting late into the night'rising again" Easter morning can sometimes…...