by Pope Francis | How do we keep our faith as a family? Do we keep it for ourselves, in our families, as a personal treasure like a bank account...
Read More »You Are What You Read: How Spiritual Reading is The Healthier Option
by Lorraine Espenhain | If you don’t nurture the spirit within you through prayer and spiritual reading, your "flesh" is going to get the upper hand...
Read More »Would Plato Be Protestant or Catholic? A Dialogue with His Ghost.
by Dave Armstrong | Calvin: Good! I think they might convert you to Reformed Protestantism. Plato: Falsehoods (even partial ones accompanied by much truth) are not allowed in heaven, so that is not possible.
Read More »Does Complaining Rob us of Joy?
by Emily Molitor | The easy answer seems to be yes. For when we fall into a pattern of complaining, it can quickly become interior as well as exterior.
Read More »Starving for Answers During the Week? Start a Diet of Daily Spiritual Reading
St. Alphonsus Liguori believed that the reading of holy books for spiritual answers was just as essential in the life of a Christian as prayer.
Read More »Silent Visions in the Rain: The Amazing Apparition of Our Lady of Knock
Most Marian apparitions provide a message and a miracle. However, Mary did not speak during her visit to Knock, Ireland, in 1879.
Read More »The Word of God at Work in You: A Simple Way to Unlock Scripture
by Lorraine Espenhain | When we don't discipline ourselves to read the Sacred Scriptures on a daily basis, how can that Word go to work in us?
Read More »Homeschooling in Africa: Memories of a White Fathers Missionary
by a White Fathers Missionary | The public schools faltered but homeschools did not and education continued. In Bantu Africa, it really takes and needs a village to educate a child.
Read More »Does the Catholic Church Claim to be “Above” the Bible and Its “Creator”?
by Dave Armstrong | The Catholic Church assuredly does not claim any such thing; only that an authoritative Christian tradition and institutional Church was necessary to establish and proclaim the canon of Scripture.
Read More »Faithful and Free: Celebrating Mary, Most Faithful Virgin
by Mary Kay Clark | The Faithful Virgin was born full of grace. Nevertheless, she still had a free will, just as we do. Unlike us, however, Mary remained faithful throughout her life.
Read More »4 Things Mother Teresa Taught The World About Poverty and How We Can Help The Poor
by John Clark | A short reflection about a few of the ways that she shaped, and continues to shape, our notion of poverty and how we can help the poor.
Read More »Why Didn’t C. S. Lewis Become a Catholic?
by Dave Armstrong | I think it is admirable of Lewis to honestly admit his biases, and to acknowledge that they had an irrational but profound effect...
Read More »Rejoicing in Our Children: 3 Ideas For A More Fulfilling Motherhood
by Emily Molitor | What does it mean to rejoice in our children? How do we rejoice, revel in, the vocation of motherhood?
Read More »Why ‘Scripture Alone’ Doesn’t Work – In 2 Minutes
by Dave Armstrong | "How do you know your 'scripture alone' tradition and belief is true, while others are false?" "Because we are the most biblical." "How do you know yours is the most biblical?"
Read More »So, ‘Transubstantiation’ Means Jesus is *Really* Present in the Eucharist?
by Dave Armstrong | "How can you Catholics believe that the communion wafer actually turns into the Body and Blood of Christ? The 'Transubstantiation' thing?"
Read More »Three Key Words for Love and Joy in Family Life
by Pope Francis | "Our gaze on the Holy Family lets us also be drawn into the simplicity of the life they led in Nazareth."
Read More »Living the Faith as a Family: Our Lady’s Guide
Several years ago, Father Robert Levis, from Erie, Pennsylvania, spoke at a Catholic Homeschooling Conference in the Washington, D.C. area. Father Levis was a frequent speaker at homeschooling conferences for ...
Read More »Spiritual Discernment: How to Stay *Online* with God
by Lorraine Espenhain | How do we do it? He is the One who teaches us all things and gives us the spiritual understanding that we possess.
Read More »Living the Liturgical Year: Make ‘Ordinary Time’; Extraordinary!
by Monica McConkey | As Catholics, we enjoy our own special calendar, celebrating the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter as well as a significant number of weeks of Ordinary Time. It’s a shame really, that it’s called ordinary, because it’s still filled with plenty of Feast Days and celebrations that are quite extraordinary!
Read More »Why Do Catholics Baptize Babies? They Don’t Know What’s Going On!
by Dave Armstrong | Hey Cathy, why do Catholics baptize babies? It's pointless, since they don't know what's going on and can't repent, according to Acts 2:38 and Mark 6:16.
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