YouCat Part II: How We Celebrate the Christian Mysteries
Many stories dedicate a good part of their introduction to what’s known as “narrative exposition,” which presents the reader/viewer with information about the…
Thank You, Fr. Catfish
This was originally posted as a column on the Grandin Media website. In the spring of 2001, I found myself facing some heavy-duty…
Meditation for Holy Thursday
Today is Holy Thursday, the beginning of the Easter Triduum, a three day feast which remembers for us the events of Christ’s Paschal…
C.S. Lewis and the Right to Happiness
This was originally posted as a column on the Grandin Media website. A few years ago, I sat down with my two oldest…
Is God Really out there?
It’s one of the questions I get asked most often in class, so I’ve put together my three best answers to one of…
If You only Knew….
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” -Michelangelo The great…
Audacious Faith: “This IS my body…”
Every Sunday, from the time I was seven years old, I would walk up the aisle of my local parish Church. When I…
Audacious Faith: “He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit”
Scripture begins with the story of a man and a woman saying a definitive “no” to their creator, rejecting not only God’s one…
Drinking, Partying (and more) in the Bible
A previous version of LIFETEEN.com featured questions and answers from the one and only Bible Geek, Mark Hart, (in a section called “Ask…
The Charlie Challenge & the 1st Commandment
One of the questions I’ve been hearing on a regular basis over the past few months has been the Catholic perspective on “mediums”…