Readings: • Dt 26:4-10 • Ps 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15 • Rom 10:8-13 • Lk 4:1-13 “The whole story of the Temptation is misconceived,” wrote Monsignor Ronald Knox, “if we do not recognize that it […]

The evangelical Protestant “megachurch” that I attended in high school was filled with former Catholics. Many of whom had been specifically targeted and proselytized by evangelicals who encouraged them to make a personal decision for […]

The expression “caught on the horns of a dilemma” derives from the undesirable situation of facing a charging bull and having to choose which horn to be gored upon. Life is full of such terrible […]

The fifty-year period between 1920 and 1970 was a golden age for the Catholic novel. Among the great novels published in that fertile period are Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Georges Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country […]

Lent is a time especially focused on conversion, on turning from sin and turning to God. Conversion, on the other hand, is not limited to one time or season. It is the ongoing work of […]

On December 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal apartment when the wide-ranging conversation John Paul II always encouraged took an unexpected turn, with the pope asking me how President Ronald Reagan was […]

School of Repentance – ‘What are you giving up for Lent?’ While the question might be common in many Christian circles, it seems that answers to it are, well, increasingly creative.” Lent and the Divine […]

On September 13, 1843, Our Lord spoke to the heart of a Carmelite nun in the city of Tours, France. Jesus told her that He was calling her to a program of reparation for sins […]