Imagine you are a patient suffering from a physical ailment. Your doctor prescribes a medication to you. He explains that the minimum required dosage is two pills, but he recommends taking much more than that for full effectiveness. Moreover, he also says that for the medication to have any effect...
Israel had just prevailed in the Six-Day War the previous year. Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula to Israel. On both sides, passions were high and people were scared. The whole Middle East was in turmoil. And it was in the midst of this chaos that Our Lady appeared. [See also:...
You can almost hear the holy noise of their children playing in the other room while they upload photos from last night’s Candlemas dinner party. Joy spills onto every homepage like that glass of orange juice the toddler knocked over this morning. Intelligence lies open on every blog post...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to confession with Pope Francis? One American studying in Rome recently got an answer to that question. And she the called the experience a genuine encounter with a spiritual father – that was also surprisingly normal. “Pope Francis practices what...
This is for the broken hearted. This is for those men and women who have risked sharing the faith only to be psychoanalyzed, slighted, even shamed. God knows sometimes you just need a box of Kleenex and a few hours before the Blessed Sacrament. Or a cup of coffee with...
If you ever visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, be sure to turn your gaze to the upper-story windows on the main facade. Just beneath the window on the right, you’ll find a ladder. At first it might seem like a simple ladder of little account,...
