“I can’t believe you have a freakin’ kid.” I hear that phrase a lot now from my old high school and college friends. “I know,” I say in reply. “It’s crazy.” It is still a little weird to me, I guess. Even weirder how time seems to have sped up since the day I first … [Read more…]
My wife and I, being absurdly in love with one another while struggling to be faithful Catholics, are very open to, and actively pray for, a large family. This often brings about reactions of bewilderment from friends, even Christian ones, along with the inevitable question: “How do you think you’re going to afford all those … [Read more…]
A while back, I wrote a piece on the Sacrament of the Eucharist. What I’d like to do now is share with you a personal story about my first real “revelation” surrounding this beautiful and holy Sacrament. It happened roughly six months after my conversion. I was sitting in Mass with my wife, trying to pay … [Read more…]
Last month I wrote about how Catholics do not accept the doctrine of Sola Scriptura (meaning scripture alone) as truth. Now I’d like to move to another “Sola” that is perhaps the one of the biggest rifts separating Catholicism and Protestantism: Sola Fide. Sola Fide translates to “faith alone”. Adherents of Sola Fide express that … [Read more…]