A short time ago, in the Maryland countryside, a priest the humble folk say bears a resemblance to Maximilian Kolbe turned on the ignition of his old silver pick-up and eased out of the parking lot of his St. Michael’s parish. He shifted i … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – April 2023
March 29, 2023 by Book Reviews
The Order and Division of Divine Truth: St. Thomas Aquinas as Scholastic Master of the Sacred Page. By John F. Boyle. Reviewed by Sr. Mary Micaela Hoffmann, RSM. (skip to review) Twelve Great Books: Going Deeper into Classic Literature. … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – January 2023
December 22, 2022 by Book Reviews
Theology as Prayer: A Primer for the Diocesan Priest. By Msgr. Walter R. Oxley and Fr. John P. Cush. Reviewed by Fr. Ryan A. Muldoon. (skip to review) Theology and Science in the Thought of Ian Barbour: A Thomistic Evaluation for the … [Read more...]
The Importance of Recognizing Satan’s Existence
August 30, 2022 by John Boyle
This essay is a sequel to my article, “Disbelief in the Existence of Personified Evil” in the August 2020 issue of this same publication. In that article, I explained Satan’s identity, his motives, his ways, the times in which he attacks, an … [Read more...]
Lent: In Search Of the One and the Real
February 26, 2022 by Philip Primeau
Lent, the great and holy fast, comes upon us again. It is a season of promise and peril. Promise, because we are invited to anticipate in ourselves the paschal mystery, whereby human nature is healed and elevated. Peril, because we risk … [Read more...]
Post-Exorcism Care: A Suggested Program of Pastoral Care for Liberated Persons
October 28, 2021 by Pedro Vega
The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).[1. Every biblical citation is from the New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition of the Bible found at Biblegateway.com unless noted … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – August 2021
August 16, 2021 by Book Reviews
In Christ Alive in Me: Living as a Member of the Mystical Body. By Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J. Reviewed by Joe Serwach. (skip to review) Mystical Prayer: The Poetic Example of Emily Dickinson. By Charles M. Murphy. Reviewed by … [Read more...]
“I Am The Immaculate Conception”
November 13, 2020 by Carolyn Humphreys, OCDS
In his classic and inspirational book The Song of Bernadette, a novel based on the true story of Mary’s apparitions and miracle at Lourdes, France, Franz Werfel wrote, “Then at last she revealed the most important happening of the day, whi … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – October 2020
October 1, 2020 by Book Reviews
Can Francis Change the Church? How American Catholics Are Responding to His Leadership. By Thomas P. Sweetser. Reviewed by Christopher Siuzdak. (skip to review) Into His Likeness: Be Transformed as a Disciple of Christ. By … [Read more...]
Today’s Disbelief in the Existence of Personified Evil
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
August 28, 2020 by John Boyle
In my vocation as a coach, I have regular contact with youth and young adults, and they often confide their troubles to me. I have met many who have struggled with temptation, fallen into sin, and become enslaved by sinful habits. Their … [Read more...]
A Surprising Beatitude
Dashing the Little Ones upon the Rock
January 1, 2019 by Kevin M. Clarke
In a 2007 class on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Jesuit Fr. James Swetnam passed along to us two words of wisdom from German Biblical scholar Joachim Jeremias. The first word: read a chapter of New Testament Greek every day. Indeed, very wise … [Read more...]
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
February 21, 2017 by Douglas G. Bushman, STL
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways” (1 Cor 13:11). It is a very good thing to learn one’s faith at a young age. And it is a very good thing … [Read more...]
God’s Armor versus the Devil’s Stratagems
Spiritual Combat Revisited
August 29, 2016 by Fr. Andreas Hoeck, SSD
Introduction To say that we are living in thoroughly trying times is unfortunately neither an exaggeration nor a platitude. We are witnessing the symmetrically opposite progression of falling ethical standards on the one hand, and rising … [Read more...]
Abortion: Unmasking the Demon
August 21, 2013 by Fr. Stanley Smolenski, SPMA
It is true that fatherhood is the main target of Satan’s forces, but his is a multi-pronged strategy which includes the destruction of motherhood and childhood. This is blatant in abortions. The spiritual dimension of abortion, based on … [Read more...]
Satan is alive and well
THE DECEIVER. Our Daily Struggle with Satan. By Livio Fanzaga; translated from the Italian (Roman Catholic Books, P.O. Box 2286, Fort Collins, Colo. 80522, 2000), 234 pp. PB $22.95.
April 1, 2009 by Book Reviews
Temptation to evil is something that all men are subject to. The three sources are the world, the flesh and the devil. C.S. Lewis in his masterful Screwtape Letters describes in great detail how the devil tempts weak human beings to embrace … [Read more...]
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