When you’re not attending an event, meeting with a group, or going to your parish, are you still persuing your faith?  The Catholic Church is blessed with many resources (podcasts, blogs, news sources, videos) to keep growing, learning, and sharing in your Catholic faith.  We picked out our favorites and encourage you to try them […]

New Year’s Resolutions may be notorious for their attrition rates, but that should not stop Christians from making them. The changing over of the calendar year is a great opportunity for disciples of Jesus to assess where He might be calling us to grow and to make a firm decision to follow Him more closely.  […]

“Something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame…” This line from the last page of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1944) interprets the movement of […]

Question“Besides Confession, how do you forgive yourself and move on personally from previous sins?” Answer Let’s establish one thing real quick… this is hard. It’s not easy to forgive yourself, especially for a sin that you have been struggling with for many years. And this is not a “take this pill and you’ll be healed” […]

Confession time: I probably spend a little bit too much time listening to music, especially for someone who talks a lot about the importance of silence. I’m all over the place when it comes to tastes; there’s just so much good stuff out there!   In the midst of all this music, I always find […]

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This is the second post in a 4-part series by Fr. Hagan. THE PROBLEM Catholic doctrine says that there is a realm of reality called “nature”, the world of creation which, though separate from God, is made by God in such a way as to imitate his being, from the lowest of inanimate natures to […]

Some of you may have heard of YArespond. We focus on providing holistic and informed responses to the clergy abuse crisis and related crises facing the Catholic Church. While our efforts are based in the Twin Cities and our leadership consists of lay Catholic young adults, we seek to provide support and resources for Catholics […]

Meet Rachel Harkins Ullmann. Wife, mother of three young children, and the Executive Director of the GIVEN Institute. (Fun fact, she plays the harp too!) Rachel joined us to talk about the mission and vision of GIVEN as well as the upcoming MN GIVEN Gathering taking place in the Twin Cities on Saturday, April 24th. […]

This is the fourth post in a 4-part series by Fr. Hagan. THE PROBLEM The day before the death of Pope John Paul II, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger — soon to be Pope Benedict XVI — gave a speech on the occasion of his reception of the St. Benedict Award for the promotion of life and the family in Europe. The address […]

As we’ve recently come to the end of Paschaltide, the Easter season, with the celebration of the Solemnity of Pentecost, it seems fitting and perhaps needful to reflect on what might be thought of as a “meta-season” of the Church’s liturgical year, the period from Advent to Pentecost. In our secular culture we’re habituated to […]

New Year’s Resolutions may be notorious for their attrition rates, but that should not stop Christians from making them. The changing over of the calendar year is a great opportunity for disciples of Jesus to assess where He might be calling us to grow and to make a firm decision to follow Him more closely.  […]

The nightly routine of putting my daughter to sleep usually consists of the same stuff. After we say evening prayer, she insists I sit on the floor near her crib, holding her hand as she drifts off. It is usually during this time that I sit and scroll through the day’s news and social media […]

Dear—   Congratulations on your engagement and thanks so much for writing and for asking this question. Too few young Catholics today seek reliable “opposition counsel” before making massively important decisions in their lives, and by so doing, you demonstrate humility, a desire to know and understand the Church’s teaching and ultimately, to be obedient to […]