Joseph and Discovering a Deeper Work
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It is notable and even arresting how often our best efforts meet with failure—or at least what seems failure.
It is notable and even arresting how often our best efforts meet with failure—or at least what seems failure.
The New Testament begins with a story about a humble young woman who willingly submits to the will of God when He calls her to a momentous vocation.
There is a lingering experience of anxiety which I believe is a particularly Christian one. It concerns the problem of vocation.
The Twelve Apostles, inspired by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, drew thousands to the Christian faith within a matter of hours. But spectacular as their successes were, their first harvest of converts could not compare to the astonishing yield in Mexico in the 1530s, when somewhere between nine and ten million converts entered the Church within a few years.
We all know the term. "John is a practicing Catholic." "Susan practices the faith." But what do we mean by "practice"? And what does it teach us about our faith?
How a Christian worldview informs our approach.
Father Bronchalo explained the wounds he has encountered when as a priest he has had to care for people who don’t identify with their biological nature.
"Here we touch on something important," said Joseph Ratzinger, concluding an address in 1990:
What if this feeling never goes away?
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the Bennett family faces the gravest of circumstances when their youngest daughter, Lydia, runs off with the wicked George Wickham.
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