O Blessed Box!
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."
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.
Suddenly, in the course of a minor Internet thread, I was face to face with my own intrinsic disorder.
Perhaps the most shattering consequence of Jesus real presence, which is brought about by invoking his name, is that we become unable to lie to ourselves any more.