Baptism and Belonging in Lent
What is belonging? When we belong, we experience fitting in, just as we are, right now. We experience being a part of something bigger than ourselves. We are…
Faith Library
Category: Faith & Doctrine
What Catholics believe and why.
Are you a bridge to Catholicism?
Did you know that 45 percent of Americans (about 112 million people) have some meaningful connection to the Catholic faith in some way? Some bridge of trust? Only…
Atheists and the Holy Spirit of Christmas
Most Christians are really atheists who feel trapped in their family’s religion. They need not be Christian to enjoy the holiday season. This cynical explanation is how David…
The Forgotten One
“When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it…
Thanksgiving & Eucharist
For Americans, the term “Thanksgiving” conjures up images of turkey and cranberry sauce, parades, and bowl games. These “traditions” have come to mark an event made a perpetual…
A Jewish Physicist’s Conversion Story: Top Down to Jesus
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Robert Kurland to our blog as a new author! “Be not afraid of faith: some are born with faith, some achieve faith, and…
You are not your own
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?…
Why pray for the dead?
I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry away his…
Sunday in Galilee: Stilling the tempest
My journal entry continues describing one Sunday duirng a 1988 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Last month I wrote about a Mass in Galilee, celebrated in Aramaic and…
Jewels in Heaven
And they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man…