Why do you love being Catholic? Back in March, we introduced our first Catholic Door Scholarship essay contest for college students with this question. The criteria were simple: Practicing Catholic? Current or entering college student? If so, tell us why you love our faith in 400-600 words, and you’ll be entered to win up to …
I love being Catholic because I believe Catholicism is the sole faith founded by God. The founders of all other religions are mere mortals and flawed. Through the Catholic Church, I am unified with God in the most intimate way and able to call all baptized members family. Additionally, I gain access to all the …
Perhaps the greatest witness to my love of Catholicism is that I cannot explain it without invoking the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic saint. A scholar and author of the Summa Theologica, St. Thomas’s writings are held in high regard for their detailed explanations of spirituality, society, and the soul of man himself. It is …
To be completely honest (as a good Catholic should), I haven’t always loved being Catholic. In fact, for the first decade and a half of my life, I dreaded being a Catholic because of all that it entailed: the weekly hour-long masses, the dumb CCD classes, the strict commandments, the modest outfits and the rosaries …
“Who am I, and what is my purpose?” This simple yet real question is something that every single man will ask himself in his lifetime. It is “the question” that strikes him to the core of his being and is capable of paralyzing him if he has failed to build his life on solid foundations. …
God bless America, land that I love! Stand beside her and guide her, through the night with a light from above… With the Fourth of July here, if your family is anything like mine, it’s time to revisit the lyrics to a few patriotic hymns on the big day. After all, no one wants to be …
Today, June 23, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Although it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, why is this an important feast for Catholics? As Pope Pius XII explained in his encyclical Haurietis aquas (On Devotion to the Sacred Heart), the Sacred Heart is the foremost symbol and …
I am by no means the most informed citizen, yet I doubt that I am alone in observing that there is a problem with modern politics. In the recent presidential election, Americans were subjected to unnecessary and offensive language from both major parties, scandals and subsequent cover-ups, and a general lack of integrity and common …
This Sunday, June 18, we honor the men who are fathers in our lives, and especially our own fathers. Both parents fulfill specific, essential roles within the family, which we see demonstrated foremost by the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph within the Holy Family. Nevertheless, research has shown that the specific presence of the father …
The sign of the cross is one of the first gestures we learn to make as Catholics, and yet for all of its simplicity, the gesture is often unintentionally bungled. Although for many of us the gesture has become a deeply ingrained practice, we frequently overlook its symbolism, even as we bless ourselves at the …
