This Lent, Women Deserve Better than the Self-Love Lie

My 16 years-of-Catholic-school, prayer-fasting-and-almsgiving-engraved-to-my-prefrontal-cortex mind was taken aback when I saw a graphic online reading, This…

A Conversation with My Father

I remembered recently a conversation that I had with my father when I was very young.…

Pushing Through the “Bleh” in the Webster Woods

I don’t know about you, but I have been feeling pretty unmotivated lately. I have little…

Fighting off Sloth

As of publishing, it will have been 14 days since I received the fateful call from…

A Saint Who Will Never Be A Saint

I remember being in high school, standing on a street corner near the U.S. Capitol Building,…

Catholic Truths and Conservatism

I am very open about the fact that I am a conservative Republican. Virtually everyone who…

Yule Logs and the Father’s House

The urge to play Christmas tunes this November has been stronger than in years prior. I…

Breaking Bread, Building Bonds

When one thinks of holy spaces, the most prominent image is typically a grand church or…

A Lamp Unto My Feet

As a kid at Lutheran elementary school, I remember spreading my hands across a pantomimed path…

Loving through Medicine

Raising Lazarus from the dead, healing the blind man, curing a man with leprosy: Throughout the…