In his recent book, Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices: Aquinas’s Practical Principles for Reaching Heaven and Avoiding Hell, Fr. Basil Cole, O.P., sets out to make the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas accessible to anyone.
The Church celebrates with great joy the Solemnity of All Saints, but one day later, there’s a drastic change. Instead of white vestments, black or purple vestments are worn. Instead of the joy that we...
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Addiction comes in many different forms and affects people from all walks of life. It isn’t easy to overcome and always requires an interior process of healing.
In February 1981 I was 31 years old, living in Laredo, Texas, and in very good health. One evening, during a Valentine dance, I was dancing in a Twist and Shout contest. As I left...
On April 4, 2018, the Tuesday before Palm Sunday, during the last days of Lent, I woke up with the right side of my face paralyzed.
At age 37, I asked God for something that seemed impossible to me: to meet a single man, open to marriage and children, who welcomed my faith, my intensity, and my passion for life.
For Olympian Molly Seidel, faith in God and the patron saint of Hopeless Cases has always played a role in running. Molly first ran track through her local parish, Saint Joan of Arc in Nashotah,...
In a daze, he could only recall that someone had picked him up, carried him home, and left him on his bed.
“I specifically said to the Lord, ‘Lord, You know that I can only handle so much, and I don’t think that I can handle Crohn’s disease along with a lot of responsibilities.’”