Life Choices

As with any alcoholic, no one can persuade him to stop drinking. No amount of therapy, jail time, or crying or begging by others can get him to think, okay, I’ll stop drinking today. He has to want to do it for himself, and then he must follow the steps to help himself change.
And so [...]

Review of Fr. Corapi’s Buffalo Conference – Part 2

The conference was 10 hours. It was a long day in the HSBC Arena, but it was a good day. The standard  agenda was an hour talk with a 45 minute break. Fr. Corapi was on fire with the Holy Spirit. An overview of his four sermons can be found in this post. While he [...]

Review of Fr. Corapi’s Buffalo Conference

Well, I’m back and Fr. Corapi was great! as to be expected. The HSBC Arena was almost packed. There were about 11000 people there. The conference was called Discover the Power of the Holy Spirit! Lord and Giver of Life!
This is the first of two or three posts on the conference on the Holy Spirit. [...]

Going to See Fr. Corapi :-D

Yes, I am!! I’ll give you all a full report when I get back. God Bless Fr. Corapi!!

Links for conference are here.

Doing God’s Will

What does this mean? How do I know what God wants me to do so that I can do his will. How does God let me know this? How do I find what God’s will is for me?
I’ve been learning that God’s will is living a holy, Gospel-focused life. It isn’t necessarily about a specific vocation [...]

Fr. Corapi: We’re at War!

Teresa Tomeo, host of Ave Maria Radio’s Catholic Connection show, interviewed Father John Corapi in her national hour segment today. He discussed his conference in Buffalo, NY, which is in August, and he talked about the End Game. (He has a talk on this topic available on his website.) Today’s Catholic Connection program is available [...]

G.K. Chesterton

I’ve heard of him. He’s been on my reading list. But yet not until today have I really learned anything about Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Sure, I have admired his quotes on the Franklin Planner pages and added them to my collection of inspiring quotes. But who is he? Why did I wait so long to [...]

More on “Caritas in Veritate”

Zenit published an article yesterday, Jennifer Roback Morse: Primacy of Culture in “Caritas in Veritate” – Encyclical Offers Opportunity to “Think With the Church”. It’s “just” another overview of Pope Benedict XVI’s great social encyclical, and it’s well worth your time to read it. Her overall point is that if we live in line with [...]

Fr. Z on In Charity and Truth

Here are the first few posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Pope Benedict’s newest encyclical, In Charity and Truth.
This was Fr. Z’s first post on the encyclical – An important paragraph in “Caritas in veritate.”
Fr. Z found a few articles on the encyclical in L’Osservatore Romano.  One of them offers helpful tidbits for reading it. [...]

The Pope’s New Encyclical – In Charity and Truth

On July 7th, the Vatican released Pope Benedict’s third encyclical letter, Caritas in Veritate or In Charity and Truth.  It’s the Pope’s first socal encyclical. According to the Catholic News Agency:
Pope Benedict XVI makes clear that social issues cannot be disconnected from the defense of life from the moment of conception to its natural end, [...]