This is part two of a series on friendship. Part one can be found here. A few weeks ago, I wrote some reflections on the importance of cultivating Catholic friendships, friendships with people who challenge …
If you’re interested in writing for the website, here are the guidelines for submitting online articles. Part of the main vision for The Catholic Magazine is that the magazine will be a print magazine with …
If you’re interested in submitting articles for consideration for the print edition, here are the guidelines for submitting to the print magazine. One of my goals as Editor of The Catholic Magazine, in addition to …
I will never forget a conversation which I had with an elderly lady at a nursing home a few years ago. Normally, the nursing home, run by religious sisters and housing elderly people with certain …
Life in the Bible belt of the United States is definitely unique. The western USA has the Spanish missions; the northeast has a decently strong Catholic culture, with statues of Mary in almost every yard. …
On August 24, 2019 I was working from home on a couch in my parents’ living room. It was a beautiful, sunny Saturday. The house was quiet because my parents and younger brother, Michael, were …
This is part one of a two part set of reflections on friendship as part of the Christian life. Last month I got to do something which I hadn’t done in a long, long time: …
For Lent this year, I decided to do something which I hadn’t done since I was in college: I wanted to reinvigorate my languishing prayer life, and so I pulled from my bookshelf a four-volume …
The Traveling Rosary: Connecting the Catholic Community in Prayer I hate to start off this article in the cliche way that so many have started of late, but: man, COVID has changed so many things. …
Our world today is an angry one. Not a single day goes by without some news story working up our emotions, causing us to get angry over injustice or someone’s foolish decisions (like a gas …
