What’s a daily exercise to help me in my spiritual life?
St. Ignatius of Loyola is a great saint for our busy and over-scheduled lives. His first followers ran into the problem of not being able…
read moreShould I feel guilty for watching movies (not porn) that have explicit sex scenes?
Our feelings are always important things to take note of, and we can use them as a way to discern whether what we are doing…
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Why I’m Staying Catholic in the Face of the Clergy Abuse Scandal
As the director of campus ministry in a Catholic high school, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the clergy abuse scandal. Most all of…
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Forever Plaid: My First Summer Job at a Catholic School Uniform Store
Whenever I’m in the thick of summer, I can’t help but think of the first summer job I ever had. Too young for the hostessing…
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How to Read Like the Saints
In my early adult years, I enjoyed hanging out at big-box bookstores, sipping on a cup of coffee while flipping through the pages of some…
read moreCan a priest carry a handgun?
There’s certainly no hard and fast rule in any Church documents that doesn’t allow priests to carry guns. Just as there’s not one that says…
read moreWas Jonah literally swallowed by the whale?
The story of Jonah is one of those Scripture passages that we as Catholics would say is a TRUE story, but not necessarily FACT. Catholics…
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