Dr. Italy
The Regina Caeli, Latin for “Queen of Heaven,” is a hymn and prayer ...
Saint Joseph always appears in Manger scenes during Advent and Easter time and e...
THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY to the third part of the Secret of Fatima By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict XVI ) Interpretation of the Whole Secret of Fa...
Because he was a witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Saint Matthias was chosen by the other apostles to take the place of Judas (Acts 1;15-26...
If God provides, then why is Murphy's Law a law that seems to apply even to devout Christians? Why to bad things happen to good people? Why so much r...
“Be very careful with that vase, you know who it belongs to, right?” I asked my 6-year-old daughter as her tiny fingers traced the delicate hand painted flowers on the pink glass. “Your great-grandmother!” she replied, already knowing the answer. “Yep, the one that you’re named after...
If distraction’s what you’re after, there’s no better time to be alive. You can watch TV after work. You can go see a movie. You can scroll through hours of entertainment on Vine. Then there’s Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Not to mention HBO, Starz, and AMC....
So the Internet exploded yesterday. That’s just the best way to describe it. Some are jubilant. Others are disappointed, angry, upset. It’s not surprising that many people took to social media or their blogs or the comment sections of news websites to express themselves. But guess what?...
Having this conversation is never easy, but it is necessary. Since I have four children and none of them are preggo yet, I'm obviously crushing it, so allow me to drop some knowledge bombs on you for how to have "THE TALK" straight from the...
We’ve all had this experience (or maybe just me): You’re in a classroom, an upper-level high school or college liberal arts class, or—God forbid—graduate school. The teacher asks a question, and a well-meaning but ill-informed peer of yours gives an answer, a dead-wrong back-asswords answer....
Being the son of a theologian sometimes has its advantages, one of them being that I was confirmed before I was fully able to say the name John Chrysosystum. (still can’t). You might be surprised to find out that my brother and I never attended...
The Crossroads Pursuit has taken it upon itself a great and necessary task in the Church: to broaden our baby naming horizons. Seriously guys, I have 5 friends named John Paul. JP II was awesome, but man. Lets give some of the other 8,000 Saints some love! The same goes for Confirmation...
“…and every third Sunday, we have a Beatles service.” I did an internal double-take. My friend was just describing her Methodist church and what their services were like, and that was the last thing I expected. I maintained an expression of calm interest as I pictured...
"St. John Vianney’s ministry gives parish priests a fundamental blueprint for a pastoral plan for any place and time." [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']S[/dropcaps]t. John Vianney (1786 1859) is regaining popularity among diocesan seminarians. After a generation of being ignored, if not ridiculed, the patron saint of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]n her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course. The ancient...