“Is this not in large measure what it means to belong to a family: to burden each other — and to find, almost miraculously, that others are willing, even happy, to carry such burdens?”
~ Gilbert Meilaender
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Protecting Grandma After the Pandemic
22 MayBl. John of Cetina & Bl. Peter de Dueñas
11 May
“Franciscans of Spain, they were sent to the Muslim kingdom of Granada in order to try and evangelize the inhabitants and were predictably killed.”
~ Basil Watkins
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You Can’t Not See It: Of Helm’s Deep, Emmaus, and the Rosary
10 May
“She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
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Fostering Peace, Healing Wounds, Embodying Christ
28 Apr
“The guards told us they’d never seen people
who lived their religion the way we do.”
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Free College, Fatherhood, and Financing Martyrdom
14 Dec
“I know that, if I do what I think God wants me to do,
he will take care of my family.”
~ Bl. Franz Jägerstätter
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Dignity, Defiance, and Mirth: A Plan for Dying Well
14 Nov
“Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing, and I think those who don’t have it miss one of God’s mercies.
~ Flannery O’Connor
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Reasons to Send Your Catholic Kids to Protestant Colleges
24 Sep
“As far as possible parents have the duty of choosing schools that will best help them in their task as Christian educators” (CCC 2229).
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