Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts According to the USCCB’s voting guide, Catholics are called to “stand with newcomers, authorized and...
Glad You Asked
Glad You Asked is a column that presents informed, enlightened responses to basic questions of Catholic doctrine, history, identity, or pastoral practice.
To put it simply: Yes. The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting marriage as a natural right. This includes upholding the validity of marriages...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Today, millions of baptized Catholics exist on the church’s margins. Many of them identify as “cultural...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts While people sometimes use the term “the church” as shorthand for the Vatican or the magisterium, the church...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In the 6th chapter of Matthew’s gospel, Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray, introducing what today we...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts This Easter—2026—multiple Catholic parishes across the nation saw a surge in adult baptisms and new converts...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts People go “parish hopping” for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it’s because of simple things like...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts You don’t have to be Catholic to recognize St. Francis of Assisi. Across the nation, you can find this...
I recently graded an exam in which a student tried to support their point by quoting scripture: “As the Bible says, ‘They’ll know we are Christians by our love...
“Who can own a tree? Who can own a rock?” This timeless bit of wisdom from the first VHS tape I owned, the 1987 classic Ernest Goes to Camp, has been lodged in...
