"Compelling" just isn't a big enough word to capture the work that Fr. Paul Hamans has given us in this book. Edith Stein and Companions on the Way to Auschwitz" not only gives us a portrait of the great saint, but gives us the faces and insights into the hearts…

During this time when we are asked to remember the value of our religious liberty, our conversation with Dr. Thomas Kidd is an important one. Dr. Kidd gives us the life and passionate thought of "Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots". Patrick Henry gave us the great rallying cry "Give me…

First Reading and the Psalm
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
The Gospel, Mark 1:21-28

Episode 2 The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer. The First Step in the Examen Prayer: Gratitude. Taking time out of the day when our hearts are free to receive the Lord's presence. Prayer always takes two persons in relationship...ourselves and God. Then together with…

Benedict XVI invited the faithful to read and meditate upon Jesus priestly prayer, and to pray to God themselves, asking Him "to help us enter fully into the plan He has for each of us. Let us ask Him to consecrate us to Himself, that we may belong to Him…

It’s something we’ve all heard before: I believe in God, but not organized religion.
But as Catholics we believe that Jesus started a Church—yes an organized religion, if you will.

The Church is a gift to the world, which God has ordained as the vehicle in which we are sanctified and grow…

"Paul's conversion matured in his encounter with the Risen Christ; it was this encounter that radically changed his life. What happened to him on the road to Damascus is what Jesus asks in today's Gospel: Saul is converted because, thanks to the divine light, "he has believed in the Gospel".…

Episode 3 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 2 Prayer 1 - "The Kingdom of God is Within You"
From "Heaven in Faith: Day 2 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1:

6. The same saint also says that "God is the center of the soul. So when the…

Episode 3 – Regnum Novum: Value # 3. Look, Judge, Act - Authentically Living Out Catholic Social Teaching

Blessed Pope John XXIII gave us this practical suggestion in his letter Mater et magistra. The Social Doctrine provides us with principles for reflection, criteria for judgment, and directives for action. Social justice…

WOL2 - Episode 2 - What is "Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)"? What does this have to do with Liberal Modernity? What is wrong with public culture we now have? What is the Culture of Death? Are there defects that go at the deepest foundational levels of our culture…