Not just another Sunday Gospel reflection…
Last Sunday’s Gospel reading was about hell, but it wasn’t all about hell. In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus speaks about divorce, but his message is not all about divorce. More…
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The Awakening Conscience 22
By Fr Jason Smith
The Awakening Conscience
We ache because we are not full.
In The Awakening Conscience William Holman Hunt places his finger—or brush, better said, on the ache found deep within every person: We either have God who alone can fill us, or we will endlessly try to pursue the things that cannot do so.
By most standards today, the woman in Hunt’s painting should be blissfully happy, if wealth, prestige, social status, gourmet eating, sexual encounters, and the like, indeed left one filled. More…
Will the Real St. Francis Please Stand Up? 26
Giotto — Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata
I am a worm, not a man. — Psalm 22:6
Everyone loves Saint Francis. Catholics, non-Catholics, non-Christians… It doesn’t matter. You don’t need to be a Franciscan to have a statue of the austere, rustic, peace-loving, animal-loving St. Francis in your lawn or garden, like this one. More…
Marriage: 1 Man, 1 Woman… Get Over It 10
Marriage. More than a civil rights issue, it is a civilization issue. Why? More…
If Devils Tempt Us, Then What Do Guardian Angels Do? 6
October 2, Memorial Feast of the Guardian Angels
No evil shall befall you, nor shall affliction come near your tent, for to His Angels God has given command about you, that they guard you in all your ways. Upon their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Psalm 91: 10-12
Little Things Done with Great Love: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 5
Six Mondays until the General Election…
And I decided not to write about that today, because today is the memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. So it seems more appropriate not to write about mundane things today.
Thérèse of Lisieux — 1873-1897
Fire and Ice 10
Just another Sunday Gospel Reflection…
Gehenna, a millstone, or a cup of cold water… More…
5 Fun Facts about Archangels 39
Two great things about today’s Feast
First, it’s a feast! So we need to celebrate like it’s a feast.
Second, it’s a feast to honor the Mighty Archangels, which gives us an opportunity to talk about something completely different for a change. More…
You Decide: Politics or Religion? 9
Bishop Thomas Paprocki
Recently, Rightwingwatch.org posted this video of Bishop Thomas John Paprocki (Springfield, Illinois) cautioning Catholic voters to think before they vote.
Two different online news sites copied the Right Wing Watch headline: Catholic bishop: Voting for Obama jeopardizes the ‘eternal salvation of your own soul.’ A third source, examiner.com, took to interpreting it differently with the following headline: More…
The New Don’t Ask Don’t Tell 15
John Becker of the Huffington Post writes:
Is it just me, or does it sometimes feel like there’s a new story about anti-LGBT spiritual bullying from the Catholic Church coming out every single day?
It’s not just you, John. You’re definitely not the only bully in town. More…
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