It’s a constant temptation to manufacture an experience of our Catholic faith, to elevate the end result over the process of being or becoming faithful.
A Catholic way of living the Sabbath often requires doing more of a different kind of work, writes Mattias Caro. Spending last Sunday re-digging a ditch reminded him of that.
In this particularly challenging election cycle, Catholics are being presented with the claim that if they don’t vote for Trump, they are helping elect Clinton, writes Mattias Caro. That claim is false.
Lent is not about self-improvement, as our therapeutic culture sees it, Mattias Caro writes. It is about fighting for God’s presence in our lives.
Men obsessed with their body image have started giving in to the slacker ideal, the “dad bod,” writes Mattias Caro in this week’s editorial. For Catholics, it’s what you get as a reward.
As Catholics celebrate the Feast of Christ the King this week, writes Mattias Caro, they ought to renew their commitment to detachment from the concerns of this world to better serve both God and man.
Instituting an “email fast” is a small way to find peace, writes Mattias Caro, but it does not permanently resolve the tension between the Christian life and the anxiety of the world.
We cannot understand your uncritical support of Planned Parenthood, especially in the light of the horrific videos showing that business’s disregard for civilized behavior and cavalier commodification of the human body.
Poets and artists in Prague created the resistance that brought down Communism. Led by Václav Havel, these offer an important example, but also a stern caution, to those of us living marriage.
Taken together, the idea of a parish is a space created to welcome the Christian believer and to invite him to prayerful rest in the sacramental encounter with the Lord.