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The Desire for Control Dehumanizes Us

Recently, a news article about baseball sent me down a rabbit hole of theological and philosophical thought. The article caught my attention because my late father was an avid baseball fan. He spent the last 17 years of his life on full-time disability. The last five or so years of his life he was p...

Learning to Surrender and Trust with St. John Henry Newman

Life is hard, and it doesn’t always go according to plan. Those moments can be filled with sweat, tears, blood, sleepless nights, anxiety, and even temptation away from hope and toward despair. While we can feel slight or crippling loneliness in such moments, the reality is that suffering, difficult...

Don’t Ignore Christ’s Invitation to You: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

In a parable this Sunday, Jesus describes a great wedding feast. Those who get invitations would be wise to ask: “What should I wear?” Gospel (Read Mt. 22:1-14) In the last of three parables in this portion of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus continues to describe the kingdom of God for “the chief priests an...

John Henry Newman’s Exceptional Path to Truth

What led one of the leading Anglicans of England, a brilliant theologian and Oxford graduate, to forsake Anglicanism for a belief that he had recently declared was led by the Antichrist pope? What occurred in his life during middle age that made him convert to the one belief that he had stood agains...

Cohabitation and the Unpopular Truth About Love and Law

In February 2020, Pamela Anderson separated from her movie mogul husband of 12-days, Jon Peters, declaring: “Life is a journey and love is a process. With that universal truth in mind, we have mutually decided to put off the formalization of our marriage certificate and put our faith in the process....

The Beauty of the Trinity: Part IV

In the previous article, we explored how Ancient Greece was favored by Heaven with the gift of philosophy, a tool through which men of good will and profound spirits intuited distant shades of the Holy Trinity. The Trinity reaches out to man the way the sunlight shines on windows; the clarity with w...

The Tower and the Sprinkler: What the Tiny Aspergillum Reveals About Christianity

Recently I found myself looking at photographs of the blessing at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. Now the world’s tallest church, its central Tower of Jesus Christ soars 172.5 meters into the sky, the result of more than 144 years of work. Antoni Gaudí called it a “temple of light and harmony” mea...

St. Carlo Acutis and Screen Time: Moving from Consumer to Builder

There are almost as many screen control apps as there are social media apps. You can buy a device that physically locks your phone and requires you to move to another room to unlock it. We scroll, we stream, and we worry about screen time. The lack of control creates jokes, but also a nagging sense...

The Necessity of Prayerful Meditation

A confrere once asked me to guess what he was thinking. When I replied that I had no idea what was on his mind, he smiled and replied, “Thoughts.” I knew then that I had fallen for his trick. What else would he be thinking if not thoughts? We have thoughts all the time. We have memories of the past,...