After watching the movie “Sound of Freedom” I was motivated into writing my reaction, or “response” for use of a better word. Apart from the trauma that was triggered in me, no tears were shed, only harsh, inexplicable emotions that God alone would be able to comfort....
This article first appeared at: catholic.comThe temple in Jerusalem was one of the most impressive buildings of the ancient world. And, although it functioned as a place of ritual sacrifice and prayer, it was also as a place of study, the center of a vast network of...
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comOne of my earliest memories is of a time my father took me to the hardware store. I was young—maybe seven years old. I don’t know what we were getting or why we were there, but the memory has never left me.After my...
This article first appeared at: fireupministries.com This is what the world has to say about truth, “I have my truth, and you have your truth. Don’t force me to believe or accept what you believe, and I wont force you to believe what I believe.” This is actually a...
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.com It’s clear that we are living in a time of confusion and division, both in the Church and in the world. I am not qualified to evaluate whether this is the worst confusion the Church has seen or not—we have been through...
This article first appeared at: fireupministries.comIn my teen years, I believed that I could never be fully alive and happy if I lived according to the Church’s teachings on human sexuality. When I was about seventeen years old, I remember being at the gym, watching...
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comJesus summed up his teaching in a startling and unambiguous call to His followers: “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48). Perfect in purity of heart, perfect in compassion and...
This article first appeared at: fireupministries.comLife throws us many curveballs, perhaps none as difficult as reconciling the existence of an all-good God with the reality of suffering and evil in the world.I remember reading a news article about a terrorist group...
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comWe live in a strange world today. Some people are beginning to call it a post-Christian world, in spite of the fact that Catholics are more numerous than any other single group on earth. But really it’s the intellectual...
