My daughter and I were on a walk the other day when she sighed all of a sudden. "I really don’t like Lent," she said.

We are consistently told that bodily presence is optional and expendable.

A friend of mine was a bit put off recently by a highly credentialed Catholic layman who declared that there were only two vocations open to Catholics: marriage or some form of religious life.

Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It's common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol, dessert, etc.

In a recent viral video receiving massive online blowback, the author and historian Yuval Noah Harari says, "Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we've invented."

As Lent begins again, and with it, the desire to follow Christ on the way to Calvary, I am fascinated, as all Western civilization has been for two millennia, by the Cross at the end of that uphill climb.

Now here is a curious thing. The Blessed Virgin Mary—the epitome of humility, faith, and obedience—does something that we do not typically associate with those virtues.

On June 8, 1978, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn ascended to the podium at Harvard University and delivered a commencement address that was the perfect antithesis of political correctness.

One of the most striking passages in all of Scripture is Job's prayer just after he has learned of the destruction not only of his sources of wealth (his beasts of burden and his servants) but also of his ten sons and daughters.

The life-lessons from sowing seed are endless.