Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire, Young Adult Ministry, Youth Ministry
As late as 2004, 84 percent of young adults said that they regularly prayed; by 2016, fully one fourth of that same age cohort said that they never pray.
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Filed Under: Blog, Word on Fire
Immediately after caring for their physical and psychological needs, the saint commenced to instruct the slaves in the rudiments of the Christian faith.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire
The social media space can become so enticing that we strangely distort ourselves in order to conform to it, and we prefer its artificiality to the density, challenge, and opportunity of the actual world.
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Filed Under: Blog, Word on Fire
I have discovered now through direct experience, though I had certainly sensed it through photographs, that it is practically impossible to gaze at Mont Saint-Michel without falling into mystical reverie.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire
We clothe the skeleton of St. Ambrose in stately liturgical robes and we crown his skull with a bishop’s miter, not be macabre or “creepy,” but because we reverence his body as a place where Christ had come to dwell
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Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life, Word on Fire
It is a peculiarity of Catholic theology that a couple exchanging vows at their wedding Mass do not so much receive a sacrament as they become a sacrament.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire
when there is no truth, there can be no argument, for argument depends upon a shared appeal to certain epistemic and ethical values.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire
The series of Fatima appearances — lasting from May until October of 1917 — is one of the most extraordinary in the history of the church.
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Filed Under: Commentary
The very intensity of the interest in The Benedict Option in one way proves Dreher’s central point, namely, that there is a widely-felt instinct that something has gone rather deeply wrong with the culture and that classical Christianity, at least in the West, is in a bit of a mess.
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Filed Under: Commentary
The Case for Christ is interesting for any number of reasons, but I think it is particularly compelling for its subtle portrayal of the psychological, spiritual, and intellectual dynamics of evangelization.
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Filed Under: Blog, Word on Fire
(The Church) should lead today as it led two thousand years ago, with the stunning news that Jesus Christ is the Lord, and the joy of that proclamation should be as evident now as it was then.
