Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Battling for the souls in a soulless age

Speaking in Alaska on September 11, 2023, President Biden noted that the terrorists responsible for killing so many people 22 years ago “could not touch what no force, no enemy, no day ever could, and […]

St. Joseph of Cupertino

Let no one say the Catholic Church hasn’t a sense of humor, particularly in the manner she chooses to reward saints. We only need to look to the example of St. Joseph Cupertino for our proof. St. Joseph lived in the 17th century and was a faithful and passionate young boy, yet he was lacking […]

Planning Pilgrimages for 2024

What is a pilgrimage? Most people define a pilgrimage as a spiritual journey to a sacred place or shrine as an act of devotion to God, though in modern days, some people may take a pilgrimage to visit a celebrity hero. For Catholics, however, a pilgrimage takes the traveler to a holy site or Christian […]

10 Tools to Help You Offer Your Praise to God

Of all of the expressions of prayer, the most sublime and exalted is that of Praise. Saint Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises, Principle and Foundation (#23) starts out attesting to the fact that Man is created to praise God. Very interesting, before anything else, man is first and foremost created by God so that he might praise God. No […]

The New High-Tech Communist Nightmare Ain’t Right

TRANSCRIPT   In order to be a leader, you have to have the trait of connecting the dots, of seeing the interconnection between things. Wisdom, after all, is that very thing: seeing how various things — some clear, others not so clear — actually align with each other and are all part of the so-called big picture. So for […]