“In the beginning” we are all children of God, created in his image and likeness, and perhaps that’s a good place to start teaching our children divine truth. Parents best determine the timeline of learning, as they have the privileged right and difficult responsibility to be the best teachers and spiritual leaders to their children.
The first time I ever walked into the Center for Catholic Studies here in Minnesota, I remember thinking, “I’d love to get a job here one day.” Two years later, after I’d finished my graduate degree, that’s exactly what happened. I served as an adjunct professor and the managing editor for “Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture” for nearly 14 years.
Pro-life advocates do more than protest
A chance at life
Doing what can be done
Papal respect, abortion concerns
Inspirational leadership
Finding the sacred
When I first read St. Therese of Lisieux’s “Story of a Soul,” I was not impressed. In fact, I found “the Little Flower” to be more than a little obnoxious.
It will come as no surprise to most people, even Catholics, that what we have experienced over the past 30 months has created indifference: a lack of interest, concern or empathy for the predicament of others. Even if an individual is commonly known for being compassionate, the past two-and-a-half years have created exhaustion and fatigue.
During his down time at work, a Minnesota surgeon often browses the New Yorker in the hospital library. One day he spotted its famed cartoon caption contest — a caption-less cartoon that calls on readers to submit captions and then vote on their favorites, to be published in the following issue of the magazine.