Can You Be Mindful And Still Feel Angry?

Many individual’s have fallen under the notion that practicing mindfulness means they will be completely at peace at all times. Then, when this does not occur, they become more upset or believe that mindfulness doesn’t work. To combat this, we must first understand what mindfulness really is. Mindfulness is defined as the ability to experience [Read More...]

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The Casserole Dish Manifesto

I possessed a consummate ideology before I had children. It was a perfectly distilled comprehension of man, God, and government. I knew with certainty that if everyone would just turn off the television and read Important Books, we could live alongside one another the way the Almighty intended when he crafted laws of the universe [Read More...]

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3 Ways To Unleash the Spiritual Power of Your Marriage

  What’s the point of marriage?  Do we even need it anymore?  If so, what for? If you ask a dozen people these questions, you may get a dozen answers, but the Catholic answers to these questions reveals a depth and spiritual power to marriage that many people don’t fully appreciate.  Simply put, Catholics believe [Read More...]

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The Next Abraham

A few days ago, I was blessed to be present at my grandson Abraham’s bris, his ritual circumcision. The mohel, the rabbi who officiated at and performed the circumcision, explained to the family and friends gathered for the ceremony, explained that a bris is the way God signs God’s name on a Jewish male baby. [Read More...]

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The Catholic “Third Way” in Socio-Political Thought

Reflections on the “Great American Mush God” of Civil Religion and Morality Our Banner in the Sky (1861), by Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (1-24-02) *** [Compiled from various papers and dialogues, which might account for the rambling, somewhat incoherent nature of these thoughts. But the overall theme remains the same [Read More...]

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Here’s Why Abortion Remains THE Fundamental (and Non-Negotiable) Social Justice Issue of Our Time

It has become popular, as of late, to assert that abortion is just one of many important social-justice issues.  Many people correctly note that a host of other issues–from education, to immigration, to healthcare–are also extraordinarily important pro-life issues. Pope Francis, himself, has noted “all values are non-negotiable.”  And of course, he’s absolutely right. All [Read More...]

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Poetry Friday: “Gravity and Grace”

There was a time, early in my process of conversion to Christianity, when I took Simone Weil as my spiritual guide. And a tough one she was—exactly in the ways that Betsy Sholl elaborates in this poem. The epigraph that Sholl chooses is one of Weil’s many expressions of how the self gets in our [Read More...]

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