It’s 3PM on Friday here on the East Coast, which means that if you’re like most of the working world, your brain has already involuntarily checked out. It may already have wandered to a nice glass of whatever you’re having. …
Listening Like a Catholic: The Discernment of Personal Musical Taste (Part 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the topic of cultivating a more authentic taste in music. The first part is available here. In the last article, we discussed some of the criteria by which we may evaluate the …
1P5 Podcast – Episode 4: Catholic Dads Roundtable
Today Steve does a 1P5 Roundtable discussion with Elliot Bougis and Scott Broadway . We talk conversion stories, the evangelical power of the Eucharist, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and those pesky labels we append in front of the word “Catholic”
9/11 and Saint John Paul II
It was 4:30AM in New York City and in Washington DC on the morning of September 12, 2001. More than just a new day was dawning, however. It was also the dawning of a new era. Just the day before, …
The Science of Evil Just Caught up to Thomas Aquinas
In the Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas argues with specificity the maxim that many Catholics have often repeated in the contemplation of evil as a choice: even in committing evil, man always seeks a perceived good. From the Summa: Now a certain …
Don’t “Rebuild” Your Parish. Restore It.
Last week I wrote about the newly founded “Amazing Parish” movement which, according to their website, “seeks to provide resources to pastors and parish leaders so they can create a thriving parish life.” The group recently held its first ever …
Beware the Tactics of the Devil
Any combat training and tactical planning begins with a process of intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. Recon (reconnaissance) is a military term used to determine the enemy force’s disposition and intention, gathering information (or intelligence) about an enemy’s composition and …
Additional Clarifications on the Sheen Cause from Diocese of Peoria
In response to the statement from the Archdiocese of New York on the dispute over the transfer of Venerable Fulton Sheen’s remains to Peoria for the next stage of the canonization process, the Diocese of Peoria has issued their own …
The Friday Podcast is Available Now
No guest this week. Just me monologuing on Bishop Sheen’s interrupted cause for canonization, the disconcerting NY Archdiocese, Msgr. Pope’s disappearing (and excellent) blog post, and the prophetic vision of the present Church written by St. Luke in the Acts of …
1P5 Podcast – Episode 3: Bishop Sheen’s Cause
Today I talk fidelity to vocation and God, Bishop Sheen’s cause for canonization, the disappearing blog post of Msgr. Charles Pope, and the wolves of the Acts of the Apostles.