How I woke up from spiritual slumber and inched at a snails pace to Rome
Former media mogul Conrad Black was an agnostic until his 20s, but, after trips to Rome, Lourdes and Fatima, found he could not shut out a sense of God.
Former media mogul Conrad Black was an agnostic until his 20s, but, after trips to Rome, Lourdes and Fatima, found he could not shut out a sense of God.
Joseph, despite his very short life, greatly enriched our and many other peoples' lives.
"Can a country known for radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness?"
Now it is no longer for Fr. Neuhaus to do for us, but our turn to do for him.
In the later years of his life, after he had fled Nazi Germany at age fifty-four and moved to Princeton, New Jersey, Albert Einstein focused his scientific energies on what would turn out to be a futile quest: the search for a unified field theory.
Earlier this year, the American Secretary of State visited Latin America. At the basilica in Mexico City she was shown the image of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the tilma (cloak) of a Chichimeca tribesman in 1531.
The summer before my eighth grade, a couple of young men from town showed up at our door, asking my parents if they could talk to us about my enrolling in something they called the Higher Achievement Program at the local Jesuit high school.
After having served 18 days in prison, the Rev. Walter Hoye is a free man and will remain so -- as long as he doesn't come within eight feet of anyone who is about to enter an Oakland abortion clinic.
During the persecution of Christians in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman prefect Rusticus was frustrated by the serene equanimity of the Christian convert Justin, a Platonic philosopher.
Years ago I was involved in a CBC Online discussion forum on the topic of Robert Latimer. Most of those participating in the forum were in favor of Latimers decision to murder his daughter and regarded him as a courageous man.