Leviathan: The Influence of Satan in Our Accumulation of Debt

From the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Justice Ginsburg and Euthanasia, to health care reform that would endanger our weakest, many American Catholics are waking up like Rip Van Winkle to discover on November 4th of last… Read More

Our Lady of Love

She is a strange and beautiful grace, a holy mystery, Our Mother. There was never a moment in Jesus’ thirty three years that Mary did not surround Him with the womb of her love, as she surrounds all of us.… Read More

The Now

I despise it when I pray desperately for something and God ignores me. I know we’re supposed to smile our holy smile and accept God’s perfect will with great meekness and faith, but I always feel like throwing a tantrum… Read More

The Answer to Prayer is Always “Fish”

She was old enough to be my mother, the holiest woman I knew, and she sat in the front row of my Bible study class. We could not have been more different. She was in her forties, I in my… Read More

The Light of Almonds

In the Old Testament tabernacle, a copy of the temple in heaven, the sanctuary was covered with curtains. To the left of the sanctuary entrance was a piece of equipment used to illuminate it, the gold lampstand. According to the… Read More

The Brazen Altar of Authority

One of the most spectacular benefits Catholics receive from a study of the Old Testament tabernacle is the discovery of how rational, necessary, and relevant are all the practices, rituals, trappings, and structures of the Catholic Church. Some knowledge of… Read More

Bread of the Presence

"What is it?" the Israelites asked, when it appeared on the wilderness floor, and so they named it "manna," meaning "What?" (Ex. 16:14-31). Manna was heavenly bread miraculously provided by God to nourish the Israelites during their sentence of 40… Read More

I Have Wrestled With God and Won

My new name is Peniel, meaning “I wrestled with God and won.” Having just received it last week, it is fresh and painful. This name comes from Genesis 32, in which Jacob is assaulted by a strange man who engages… Read More

The Lord is my Banner

It is the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of Armies, who trained his hands for war, the great warrior-poet, King David, sang in Psalm 18:34, the same Lord who makes war today. Independence Day brings to mind the American ensign,… Read More

The Priesthood, Old and New

As a Baptist Sunday School and Bible study teacher, one of the questions that used to nag at me incessantly was this: Why, after such painstaking deliberation in dictating an institutional religion that pleased Him in the Old Testament and… Read More

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