(A series on Blessed John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility) How does a person know if he is in a relationship of authentic, committed love or just in another disappointing romance that will not stand the test of time? That’s what John Paul II — then Karol Wojtyla — addresses in the next section of [...]
(A series on Blessed John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility) Many young people have had the experience of feeling that they were in love with someone who at first seemed absolutely wonderful, only later to be greatly disappointed in the person, disillusioned about the relationship, and perhaps even down on the opposite sex as a [...]
“And they were astonished…” (Mark 1:22) To be “astonished,” a word coming from the Greek ekplēssō, means to be struck with amazement. When are we struck with amazement? A good example of astonishment would be the birth of a child. Here, the very being of the child is displayed… this new, unrepeatable, completely unique human [...]
“I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak.” (Matthew 12:26) I have to admit, every time I read these words in Scripture, I get a little nervous. We are living in an age in which we are flooded with words – through advertising, TV, [...]
A five-year-old girl sits at her desk looking eagerly at her teacher, waiting in ardent anticipation of her next coloring project. The little girl’s eyes widen joyfully as her teacher approaches, holding a colored marker in her hand. “This green marker is for you,” the teacher tells the little girl. “Use it to draw me [...]
I am notorious for ambitious reading. Thus, I have about seven books going right now. One of the books is Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, before he became Pope Benedict XVI. Not surprisingly, I haven’t moved beyond the Introduction. But that is okay, because it contains much for the mind to chomp on. [...]
Spiritual Guide, “Hurriquake” Protector, Boogieman Defender: Thanks, Guardian Angel! In the wake of surviving unscathed an earthquake and a hurricane in one week, I have one more suggestion to add to Annie Mitchell’s wonderful article Make me Holy… Guardian Angels. First, because devotion to Guardian Angels is so easily overlooked and secondly, because my angel [...]
Tutored a kid once. Haven’t since. He was probably a third grader at the time, with the telltale third grade characteristics: short and scrawny and freckled. What you read hereafter is the story of how he duped me, and drove me to despise tutoring. College, for me, had just ended, when my mom arranged for [...]
The first time I was invited to speak at a Catholic event was for local youth retreat called Credo, for which I was asked to give a talk on our universal call to holiness. At the time I was a traffic reporter in Cincinnati, and I wasn’t much exposed to the documents of the Church [...]
High school graduation marks the end of the nesting period and the beginning of quasi-adulthood. Parents are a weird mix of merry and melancholic, while many graduates are saturated by relief, excitement and panic. The nostalgia of graduation season leads me to an observation that applies to rising college freshmen, and to all of us, [...]
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