Category: Reflections

The greatest good is God: Boethius learned and now teaches us not to succumb to fatalism, which extinguishes hope. He teaches us that fate does [not] govern our lives — Providence does and Providence has a face. You can speak to Providence because Providence is God. Pope Benedict XVI spoke yesterday about the two ancient…

I found a great website for those interested in returning to the Catholic Church. Catholics Coming Home is a great resource for anyone who had left the Church and is considering coming back. It encourages people to connect to a local parish and become reintegrated into the faith community. Pass it along to someone you…

Rocco, the man who can find out anything about anything within the Catholic Church has named his Churchman of the Year for 2007: His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston. The story, very detailed with a word count just under 6,000, shares with all what I’ve been hearing from my friends in the Galveston-Houston…

The hardest people that I encounter in my daily life that are hard for pray for aren’t people who’ve done horrible things. Murders, thieves, and other criminals, I figure they must have had a hard life in some way, whether it be in their childhood, some psychological issue or whatnot, that led their life on…

Papal Basilica to Open Ecumenical Chapel ROME, DEC. 21, 2007 (Zenit.org).- An ecumenical chapel at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls is one of the first initiatives of the upcoming Pauline year. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, announced plans for the chapel in an interview with L’Osservatore Romano. The chapel…