The Art of Living: Patience and Perseverance
How do you respond when "bad things" happen to you? When you experience disappointment or setbacks? When you are hurt by something someone said?
How do you respond when "bad things" happen to you? When you experience disappointment or setbacks? When you are hurt by something someone said?
Richard Fitzgibbons, a Philadelphia psychiatrist, told The Bulletin that many of the conceptions that drive the push for curricula that endorse a homosexual lifestyle have no basis in scientific findings.
Suggestions and ideas to create a Catholic atmosphere in the home (Domestic Church) for Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day.
After seeing Christ's self-giving love in the movie The Passion, we are compelled to ask how do we individually define love, and what is our society's view of love?
The Pontius Pilate of "The Passion of the Christ" is a more multi-dimensional man than traditionally portrayed in film.
The passion of Christ both the historical event and Mel Gibson's film begins with the Agony in the Garden. In the film, the devil is watching Christ as he prays, agonizing over the indescribable suffering he is about to undergo to redeem humanity.
In Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", we see Mary in a way that is very different from Hollywood's traditional depiction.
We like to think that we are really grown up when we can do our own thing. Jesus Christ challenges that assumption.
Catholics need to know their own story but balk at opening those multi-volume Church histories. H.W. Crocker III has written a book that solves the problem. I am still scratching my head over how he did it, but in Triumph he has told 2,000 years of Catholic history in fewer than 500 highly readable pages. The book has all the virtues of a good novel while packing an enormous amount of information.
The Catholic Intellectual Renaissance earlier in this century made extraordinary contributions in literature, philosophy, and theology. It did not happen by accident. Catholic institutions, as well as the surrounding secular culture of the late nineteenth century, still contained the conditions for a renewal of those disciplines.