Fr. Antonio Spadaro, a sharp Italian Jesuit I met while in Rome, recently wrote an article in a Vatican-backed magazine that has generated a lot of buzz. In his La Civilta Cattolica piece, Spadaro praised the approach of computer hackers, seeing in their work a participation in God’s own work of creation. The article, written in …
Today, one of my favorite bishops in the country will be installed as the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Archbishop Charles Chaput is one bishop who just seems to “get” every facet of Catholicism–he’s staunchly pro-life, one of the Church’s best catechists and evangelists, grew a strong vocation culture in Denver, and never …
Fr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism book alongside the 10-part epic Catholicism series. Whether for yourself or for your parish, I’m telling you: You. *Need*. This. Series.
I’ve written many times before on my attempts to “live a great story.” I got the idea from Don Miller’s book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, and it’s changed my life. I’m now constantly on the lookout for ways to sacrifice, overcome conflict, and live heroically. When I talk about “living a great story”, …
One question I’ve heard from a number of friends, Christian and non-Christian alike, is “how can we trust that the Bible is accurate?” In fact just a few weeks ago an atheist friend at work said, “We can’t rely on the words in the Bible. The Church has manipulated them down through time and what …
