Almost any music fan recognizes that the Beatles are one of the greatest bands of all…
Author: Matthew D. O'Keefe
Matthew O'Keefe majored in philosophy and graduated from Boston College in 2021. He contributed to The Torch's C101, Faith Features, and Cultures sections for two years. After graduating he served as a teaching fellow for Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education, teaching high school civics and history. You may now find him complaining about BC's failure to win the Beanpot during his four years on campus, telling everyone about how his summer abroad in Rome "changed him," and lamenting the loss of Late Night chicken tenders.
Avatar and the Christian Faith
If you hadn’t already watched it when you were a kid, you might have binged watched…
Praying Through Holy Thursday
Most Catholics know that Holy Thursday is the beginning of the Paschal Triduum and one of…
Throwing a Hail Mary: The Theology of Football
The average play lasts 10 seconds at most. In that span of time, however, 22 human…
Saint of the Issue: St. Brigid of Kildare
Irish Catholicism is almost synonymous with the island’s most famous bishop: St. Patrick. Irish culture is…
Cornerstone: The Jesus Prayer
Most readers in the Western Church know a multitude of common prayer methods that have nourished…
Sunday, a Day of Rest and Prayer
It can be so easy to view Church laws as simply arbitrary restrictions, and this is…
Saints of the Issue: The Fourteen Holy Helpers
One of the most beautiful aspects of our faith is our belief that in times of…
Working at God’s Pace
Ours is a culture built on speed: we Americans love our fast cars, fast internet, and…
Pilgrim’s Progress: St. Clement’s Basilica
If asked for the location of the world’s most famous Catholic churches, there is a good…