Look up the term “unintended consequences” and you’ll find an entire school of thought on the subject. According to one source, consequences of this sort can be classified as positive, negative or, ...

Pope Francis on Palm Sunday said that imitating the humility of Jesus is what makes Holy Week "holy," and encouraged attendees to mimic his attitude of humiliation as the week unfolds. Referring to ...

The recent casual remark of a friend got me to thinking about how people experience Easter differently. My friend and I discussed something Christians are constantly encouraged to consider, especially ...

ROME – Ahead of his beatification Sunday, the late Pope John Paul I has been praised by family and those who knew him as an example of humility and holiness, and whose brief, 33-day legacy has much to ...

Our secular world has very low expectations for its citizens. Holiness seems out of reach and therefore unrealistic. “Have a nice day,” “Don’t do drugs,” “Don’t drink and drive” and “Don’t wear white ...

As a Catholic, I am often confronted by the difficulty of being “in the world but not of the world.” In our struggle to remain holy despite earthly temptations, it can be easy to subscribe to the ...

New Delhi: The sacred city of Jabalpur – known as Sanskar-dharani, the land of values – holds a divine place in history. It was here, on 13 September 1933, that a blessed child was born – the child ...

In my previous blog post, I outlined the five stages of ideological commitment with the underlying premise that the more committed one is to their ideological beliefs, the greater the risk of personal ...