Sometimes the most unusual of circumstances produce the most extraordinary people, and this includes those who achieve sainthood. The story of young Carlo Acutis is one that has captured the hearts and admiration of people young and old all over the world, and recent news that the young millennial will soon join the...
It was always a lot of fun teaching philosophy and showing students how human reason is able to demonstrate the existence of God, just through deductive reasoning alone, especially Leibniz’ proof: “If the Necessary being is possible, then it exists.” However, what human reason is able to know about God in the end...
At a funeral a few years back, the family wanted me to share something the deceased man wrote. His name was Dennis. I would like begin my reflection with his words: “It is good to slow down and see the beauty in life I don’t think most people ever do! There is truly...
A reflection on the readings for May 26, 2024, Trinity Sunday. “And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the essence, for there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy...
But where does temptation come from? How does it act within us? The Apostle tells us that sin does not come from God but from our passions, from our inner weaknesses, from the wounds that original sin has left within us. That is where temptation comes from, from those passions. Interestingly enough, temptation...
There have been some new developments in the ongoing controversy surrounding the Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas. Earlier this week, a decree dated April 30 from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL) was made public. The decree states that the Dicastery, decided in favor of...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or avoiding the news, you’re aware that Pope Francis recently did a sit-down interview with CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell. In case you haven’t seen it yet, thirteen minutes of the interview were broadcast on Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes. This video is from that broadcast: That same night,...
This is the first article in the series “Spiritual Challenges.” Recently there have been various attempts to address the polarization in the Catholic Church in the United States. Last month, Cardinal Pierre gave an address at Loyola University Chicago discussing present problematic views of the Church. The Editors of the National Catholic Register...
A reflection on the readings for Pentecost Sunday It was around this time back in 2013 that I was in the home stretch on the years-long path to my ordination as a deacon. The priests and deacons I spoke with told me that receiving the Sacrament of Holy Orders would be an amazing...
Yet, you have remained faithful to the Successor of Peter. And so it gives me great joy to welcome all of you and to confirm you in the glorious legacy that you have received and which you carry forward. You are obedient, and where obedience is present, there is the Church. Where there...
On Saturday, May 18, the world will witness the most significant sporting event of the last quarter-century when WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and unified WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk meet in the boxing ring to definitively settle, for the first time since Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999,...
Today the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released “Listening to the Spirit Who Works in the Faithful People of God,” a new set of norms for discerning alleged supernatural phenomena, such as apparitions, miracles, visions, and other mystical events are claimed to be of divine origin. These norms were approved...
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