Isaac Hecker: Living by the Holy Spirit

Born: December 18, 1819
Died: December 22, 1888
Religion: Roman Catholic
This was the gathering of all the world’s Catholic bishops in the early 1960’s to renew the Catholic Church. It was called by Pope John…
The tabernacle is the chamber where leftover Eucharist is reserved for the sick or dying or to be used at a later mass. If the…
I think I can explain what was happening here. In Catholic belief and practice, baptism is a ‘once for all time’ sacrament. You only get…
So, do you really have to buy all that stuff for Catholic faith to mean something? I mean, does a person really have to be…
Supposedly, Andy Warhol once said that sex and parties were the only two events where you actually had to be there. For a long time…
I couldn’t help it. “Good riddance,” I mumbled, as the news came through that Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, had died…
Spring arrives, and young people’s hearts turn to?terrorism. On screen It must have been just about the 21st day of March 2004 that I walked…
The two reports released Friday, February 27, 2004, on sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy are unprecedented in the history of any institution. When the…
“There’s so many of them,” the septuagenarian remarked to a large gathering of us over dinner that night. “With all the people coming here from…