Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

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When the Lord called the prophet Samuel as a boy, he was instructed to respond: Speak, Lord, your servant is listening (1 Sm 3:9). I have to admit that my prayer often goes more like, “Listen, Lord, ...

Bishop James Conley. Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, ...

Deborah Savage. Deborah Savage is Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is a recognized scholar of the work of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and has written extensively on ...

There is a very good reason for every Catholic to know the great works of literature — and that is because the great works of literature help us to know ourselves. This is the reason that we should ...

Sometime early in 2020 — at different times for different people — we Americans learned about Covid: a disease unlike anything we had experienced. We heard expert predictions that the disease would ...

Up to now we have always regarded Lent as a time specially set aside for penance, a time for examining our consciences and doing penance for our sins. The struggle against sin was always made the ...

Image by 4222320 from Pixabay.. He well desires his own salvation who busily keeps within him the name of Jesus. Truly, I have no wonder that he who puts not the name of Jesus lastingly in his mind ...

I saw struggles with sin unravel before my eyes, I found clarity in my vocation and decided to marry the man I now call my husband. I watched anxieties and worries, wounds, and difficulties dissipate ...

David Deavel. David P. Deavel is an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, a Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, an Associate Editor at ...