the glory of everything

It is a season of penance, when dead things are called to life and redbuds drape themselves in purple. Jack and Cate play outside, running b...

Too often, we elevate the importance of the work God has called us to. So we are called to do this or that work and we believe it the apex o...

"Are we poor?" says my son, says my daughter, says my heart. And I think of the man on the street and the ladies who live across f...

"A Russian Orthodox Christian crosses himself in 9-degree weather as he emerges from a cross-shaped ice hole in a traditional Epiphany ...

"God is good, without passions and unchangeable. One who understands that it is sound and true to affirm that God does not change might...

I'm currently reading two books. The first is Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, by Henri de Lubac, and the second is W...

This is our second day off school here in North Carolina. We had freezing rain last night, though fortunately with no power outage or broken...

Faith Formation (CCD) was quite nice yesterday. We were decorating Christmas boxes (filled with notes of what we were and would be giving to...

This week we had a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church: the feast of the Immaculate Conception. A holy day requires those of us wh...

I watched PBS's Nature last night. The program was "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom." And among the many amazing things they sa...