Through the years that I have spent working in the slums I have learned that it is precisely the poor who are aware of human dignity. 

In short, for God's glory yield to his will completely, and never suppose that you could be serving him better in any other way; the best way to serve him is to fall in with his will for us. 

He waited nearly a half-century before deciding to shake the Anglican dust from his feet, but when G.K. Chesterton finally resolved to become Roman Catholic, his reasons were perfectly simple: "To get rid of my sins."

The transcendental is thought of often as manifesting itself in signs and wonders, prophecies and voices from the dead. 

There are significant omissions in the modern Breviary.  The verses eliminated are labeled by many as imprecatory because they call for a curse or wish calamity to descend upon others.

In his diagnosis of the "malaises of modernity," the philosopher Charles Taylor claims that our disenchanted culture suffers from a lack of depth, particularly obvious "in what should be the crucial moments of life: birth, marriage, death."

Sixth in a series on spiritual warfare: Christ and the power of sacrifice.

It may strike many Catholics as odd, improper, even irreverent, that there would be a patron saint of hangovers. 

Fourth in a series on spiritual warfare: Elijah and the power of obedience.

Fifth in a series on spiritual warfare: Jehu and the power of duty.