Becoming a Christian — How Does That Happen?
The Church draws people not just for personal or pragmatic or political or therapeutic reasons, but because the Catholic Thing is true.
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Death Is Not the End
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally/And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.” —John Donne, Sonnet X
![Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640], “St. Augustine of Hippo with Christ and the Virgin Mary”](https://publisher-publish.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20201103151116_7309671ae4616a5df6999c919680b3e18148159a40567a82f4a9ab53b47110bd.jpeg "Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640], “St. Augustine of Hippo with Christ and the Virgin Mary”")
Only One Thing is Necessary: Cleaving to Jesus Christ
How are we to find God, whom we cannot see? The answer is by turning to Christ, God incarnate, whom we can see.
The Church Can’t Change Christ’s Doctrine and Won’t Give Up on Souls
“Respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
On Trying to See Through Veils
“In a split second, my heart was touched. I believed. I suddenly perceived the piercing feeling of innocence, the eternal infancy of God.” —Paul Claudel
Given in Being, Forgiven in Grace
You and I are the undeserving recipients of a two-fold gift — nature and grace.
Sts. Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila: 2 Towering Figures of Catholic Faith
COMMENTARY: In 1970, Pope Paul VI declared St. Catherine (Sept. 27) and St. Teresa (Oct. 3) doctors of the Church.
Why Did Flannery O’Connor Write So Much About the Diseased, Demented and Depraved?
Only in Catholic circles, it seems, may one boast of the great unwashed, its ranks replete with the most rotten and wayward of men.
