“It seemed like centuries of ache coursing through me. It blew through caverns in me I didn’t know were there. I gave in to it. I gave it space to wail itself out.” – Claire Dwyer
“The same voice that was heard in anti-Catholic, pro-abortion video advertisements in Ireland will be offering prayerful reflections to Catholics this sacred season.” – Dan Burke
One of Alphonsus’s most beautiful writings is his Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, written in 1745, when he was in his fifties. This was his
“With Western culture collapsing and many in the Church seeking to adapt the Lord’s teaching to the modern (and collapsing) age, we need to stand firm, not lose heart, and actively resist notions that seek to set aside what the Lord has clearly taught.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“Gratitude lifts you into a space that is beyond you.” – Sr. Mary Scholastica, O.C.D.
“Yes, suffering is painful; it is a fearsome grace of God but it is a grace.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“While reading Finding Peace in the Storm, I realized I was wishing away the pain and suffering we were going through.” – Sarah Damm
To the extent that a Christian professes his faith and tries to live it, he becomes unusual to believers and unbelievers. This is because the
“Let what was confessed by the Fathers of Nicaea prevail.” So wrote Athanasius to a philosopher in his final years. Even to this day, Catholics
A degree of asceticism is as necessary to the spiritual life as a degree of discomfort is necessary to the natural life. Just as the
