St. Gregory of Nazianzus Warns: Don’t Think Too Highly of Yourself
COMMENTARY: Through Lent, we enact in a personal way our fundamental equality in the Church and learn something about our own sins and failings.
COMMENTARY: Through Lent, we enact in a personal way our fundamental equality in the Church and learn something about our own sins and failings.
COMMENTARY: Christmastide offers a profound rebuttal to a culture increasingly shaped by self-absorption, reminding us that we learn who we are only by being loved.
COMMENTARY: We often mistake intelligence for wisdom, but only goodness helps us see reality as it truly is.
COMMENTARY: Confession lines reveal both our impatience and our devotion — and whether our faith runs so deep that even our faults take place within it.
COMMENTARY: G.K. Chesterton saw that the man who claims to be ‘tolerant’ without having convictions is often the least able to truly respect and engage with others.
COMMENTARY: The faithful departed are not distant memories but companions still — God binds us together, even across death itself.
COMMENTARY: The Catholic Church teaches that we need more than a quick prayer — we need confession’s hard reset to keep us on course.
COMMENTARY: Skipping duties in the name of spontaneity leads to spiritual collapse, not freedom.
COMMENTARY: The world wounds us early, but darkness has an enemy, and fear is not the end of the story.
COMMENTARY: The rough-and-tumble correspondence between two women, one Catholic and one Unitarian, provides one model of how people who disagree can speak to each other.
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