It is with a bittersweet heart that I write this column to you today. After more than five years serving as the Editorial Director of The Catholic Telegraph, I am signing off. Readers may remember...
Each year during the season of Lent, the Church affords us the opportunity to rekindle our relationship with God, both as individuals and as a community of faith. These 40 days are a time set...
Lent is a season of moral and spiritual growth. For some, the principal approach is to deprive oneself of non-essential goods; we give up some pleasure or luxury. Others observe Lent by performing spiritual or...
Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). Responding to the Sadducees, Jesus said, “The sons of this age marry and are given...
In nature, young wolves leave their birth packs to assert independence but to find new territory and a mate. Their time as “lone wolves” is a temporary phase, a bridge to renewed life in community....
From the time my kids were babies, I wanted our family to live in a way that was massively distinct from the secular world, a way that was marked by faith and deep, abiding joy....
In a visually saturated world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and become desensitized to beauty. Visio Divina, Latin for “divine seeing,” encourages us to slow down and engage in visual contemplation, using art as a...
Why do Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent? What is the history behind the practice? The Church’s penitential traditions date back to the first Christians. Jesus provided a model for fasting and abstinence...
She was sitting with three other ladies, also in wheelchairs, when I found her at the nursing home. She was over 100 years old. “We can’t do much anymore,” she said about herself and her...
Those greedy popes, gluttons, hypocrites and eternally damned lovers in Dante Alighieri’s 14th century poem, The Divine Comedy, wherein Dante receives guided tours through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven: they’re meaningless to us today, right? Not...
What does a second or third cousin removed once or twice mean? Before delving into the intricacies of cousins removed so many times, an understanding of relationship terminology is needed—some familiar words today previously had...
Whether in Mass at a local parish or chapel across the world, the Eucharist is something all Catholics share. Some members of St. John the Baptist in Harrison had the opportunity to join in the...
Reaching out to others with love: that sums up the work of the many volunteers who sew projects and donate items to the Wrapped in God’s Love ministry at Holy Angels Church and Sidney Community....
Daryl and Jen Klenda, along with their three children, Isaac, Ethan and Alyssa, pour out their hearts volunteering for their parish, St. Luke Church in Beavercreek. The family moved to the area in 2018 after...
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