Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Catholic pilgrimage group walks and prays the Katy Trail

Catholic pilgrims on the Katy Trail Pilgrimage walk the route on Oct. 9, 2023. / Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 14, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Most Catholics wanting to make a pilgrimage of double- or triple-digit mileage may think they need to take a plane overseas to somewhere like Spain or France.  But one […]

If you’re bored, it’s really your own fault

Chesterton would have agreed with me. If you’re bored, it’s your own fault. “There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject,” he wrote in his early book, “Heretics.” “The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” Who is, I’d add, not only bored but boring. When our children were small, […]

St. Ignatius of Antioch on Obeying the Bishop

There is one very striking feature about the letters of St. Ignatius, which, like a thread running through the entire correspondence, stitches everything together. And that is the sense of solidarity, both profound and heartfelt, expressed by those who, at no little risk to themselves, have come to see him along the way, whether to […]