Government does not exist to create laws or legislate morality, but to safeguard people’s rights – the opportunities and treatment to which they are objectively due.

Our lives should follow a sense of calling, and this demands that we prayerfully discern, somewhat precisely, what God wants us to do.

“A priest is a man who makes Jesus real to others through word, example, and the sacraments.  He shows us what Jesus is like. . .”  Does that description remind you of anyone?  I hope so!  It reminded me of…

“And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry His cross.  And they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha” (Mark 15:21-22).
Carrying Jesus’ cross.  It…

Once you’ve encountered him, Carlos Caso-Rosendi is impossible to forget.  Not only is he passionately taking the Gospel to the world – he’s doing it in three different languages!  A convert to Catholicism from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, he is founder…

It sounds like a ridiculous question for me to pose. It’s common knowledge that the Rosary didn’t take shape for at least another thousand years! Something stood out to me the other night however, which makes me think that the…

Originality — I know, the last word you were expecting me to use for a book about the Eucharist and the Rosary, but that is what Matt Swaim delivers.  I am not aware of another work that uses the twenty…

Dr. Kevin Vost  is no stranger to Catholic audiences.  As a clinical psychologist and author of Memorize the Faith! and Fit For Eternal Life, he is a regular guest on EWTN Radio’s Son Rise Morning Show as well as appearing…

Something stood out to me when I read John’s account of the Resurrection: No one believed it when they were first told!  Whether it was Mary Magdalene hearing it from angels, or the Apostles hearing it from Mary Magdalene – no…

I recently had the good fortune to talk with Matt Swaim, producer of EWTN Radio’s Son Rise Morning Show, regarding his first book, The Eucharist and the Rosary: Mystery, Meditation, Power, Prayer (Ligouri Publications, 2010).
Shane Kapler: Matt, I know…