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My Confessions: How Saints Led Me Home
St. Augustine and I share much in common. I also was once a Manichee. Not literally of course, but, since the roots of Calvin’s heresy stretch back to that ancient...
My Confessions: How Saints Led Me Home
St. Augustine and I share much in common. I also was once a Manichee. Not literally of course, but, since the roots of Calvin’s heresy stretch back to that ancient...

With His Body Christ Weds the Church
I see him every Sunday at Mass, he and his wife. There’s nothing in particular, physically, to commend him. A senior of rather small stature, he sings in the choir,...
With His Body Christ Weds the Church
I see him every Sunday at Mass, he and his wife. There’s nothing in particular, physically, to commend him. A senior of rather small stature, he sings in the choir,...

Light of Almonds: Honoring Our Priests
In the Old Testament tabernacle, a copy of the temple in heaven, the sanctuary was covered with curtains. To the left of the sanctuary entrance was a piece of equipment...
Light of Almonds: Honoring Our Priests
In the Old Testament tabernacle, a copy of the temple in heaven, the sanctuary was covered with curtains. To the left of the sanctuary entrance was a piece of equipment...

Early Church Fathers Upholding Transubstantiati...
As a Baptist taking tentative steps toward the Catholic Church, the first theological domino to fall, for me, was two thousand years of consistent, adamant, historical Church teaching on the...
Early Church Fathers Upholding Transubstantiati...
As a Baptist taking tentative steps toward the Catholic Church, the first theological domino to fall, for me, was two thousand years of consistent, adamant, historical Church teaching on the...

A Strange Anointing: Glory in Suffering
When God first began teaching me about suffering, I was a young, non-Catholic, and found the whole subject completely depressing. As a rule, most non-Catholics have no theology of suffering....
A Strange Anointing: Glory in Suffering
When God first began teaching me about suffering, I was a young, non-Catholic, and found the whole subject completely depressing. As a rule, most non-Catholics have no theology of suffering....

Living Water in the Lenten Desert
If approached honestly, with a real effort at asceticism, Lent is strenuous, and it is usually at this point that I begin to get a little weary and parched. A...
Living Water in the Lenten Desert
If approached honestly, with a real effort at asceticism, Lent is strenuous, and it is usually at this point that I begin to get a little weary and parched. A...