Tuesday, February 6, 20180162
By Father John Bayer
Special to The Texas Catholic
A thorny theological problem that occupies many people is the relationship between divine grace and human...
Monday, January 22, 20180242We were all taught by our parents and by our teachers that we were each called to be someone special. That call was labeled a “vocation.” As we grew up in a certain...
Friday, January 19, 20180287The Greek word scholē originally denoted a state of leisure or spare time, and gradually came to describe conversations held within a time free of specific duties. The...
Wednesday, December 27, 20170161On January 8, 2018, we celebrate the baptism of Jesus “in the Jordan by John” (Mk 1:9-11). The evangelist Mark tells us that the baptism John preached was “a...
Thursday, December 14, 20170279
By Father Thomas Esposito
Special to The Texas Catholic
Sight is the most divine of our spiritual senses. In the beginning, “God saw all that He had made, and...
Monday, November 27, 20170325Christ commands us to love with “all” our heart, soul and mind (Mt 22:34-40). But what does that look like? To speak about “all” a heart is to speak about a...
Friday, November 3, 20170290The current month of November brings the joy and the sadness of autumn to us in a vivid way as the trees vest themselves in many colors, but then those same leaves...
Friday, November 3, 20170213St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante are the most famous among the many theologians who have speculated about the nature of Heaven. While they certainly could not speak from...
Thursday, October 19, 20170238During the past few weeks, there has been enough violence to fill hundreds of historical documents, but history can remain very dry and far distant from most of us....