Engaging the Faith

For the first Christians, to be saved was to be made a son of God.

The baptismal vocation and the state in life vocation are further specified for each individual in a personal vocation.

Christianity today, like Christianity past and Christianity to come, contends with many enemies.

This rejection of the sacrifice of the Mass continues among Protestants today.

Within the city, issues of good and evil are everywhere present.

The formal relationship between the Church, be it the Catholic Church or other religious denominations, and the State extends the relationship between faith and politics onto an institutional level.

One common objection to the real, bodily presence of Christ in the Eucharist goes something like this: “How can you say the Eucharist becomes the Body and Blood of Christ when it still looks like bread and wine?...”

”They have no more wine!”

At the beginning of His public life on the hill of the Beatitudes, Our Lord preached: "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" (Matt. 5:5).

Lazarus belonged neither to the circle of the twelve disciples who accompanied Jesus on his travels nor to the wider circle of seventy disciples, but occupied another, special, position in relation to the Master and the apostles.

Many of us carry wounds from our upbringing, from dysfunctional family life, from traumatic events, or from patterns of unhealthy behavior we developed over the years.

Our lives should be ordered to what is good. The observation is so commonplace that it can sound trite. In English, we compare good to great. ...

Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I suppose there are few difficulties more universally felt than that of making a good thanksgiving after Communion. Spiritual writers tell us we ought not to use books, at least not for some time afterward.

I believe that old age is a gift, a very precious gift, not a calamity.

When students come to know God and are immersed into Catholic culture, they still must learn how to live the faith in the world, especially after they graduate.

For the Christian, spiritual warfare is our life-long battle to reject temptation to sin and choose God.

After the [Gulf] war, Patty and I completed our degrees and started our family.

One of the most eye-opening statements I have ever read was Peter Kreeft’s discussion of stuff.

When we actually start acting the Gospel out in the lived reality of economics, politics, and culture, we start getting into trouble.