Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls (Guest: Dr. Kevin Vost)
Catholics rightly put their spiritual lives first. But what obligation do Catholics have to care for their bodies? And is there a connection between care for the body and care for the soul?
Catholics rightly put their spiritual lives first. But what obligation do Catholics have to care for their bodies? And is there a connection between care for the body and care for the soul?
Church steeples point men’s attention beyond the horizontal, the level of their eyes, and church bells are acoustic reminders of transcendence. Today’s world needs more, not less, of those reminders.
I always assumed I would have a large family. When that was not to be, I realized God was to paint a different picture of my future.
It is divinely revealed truth that husbands are called to lead their wives in the way that Christ leads the Church. This means that husbands are called to serve, direct, die for, and cherish their wives.
It would not be hyperbolic to say that the pandemic dramatically accelerated the de-Christianization of the United States.
The world sees autism as a disability or a free pass from norms, when it is actually a gift. The radical Left sees it as an opportunity to tear down when it is actually a weight to train the soul. It can be cursed, or it can be cherished.
Modesty includes dressing distinctively feminine, if you are female, and distinctively masculine, if you are male, and not succumbing to androgynous behavior or looks, but dressing as you know you ought.
A little-known 19th-century priest, born into Russian nobility but eventually a Catholic missionary priest in America, lived a life that can be a model for us today.
Modern Catholics live under the assumption that Hell is mostly empty. But doing so radically impacts our ability to fulfill the Great Commission.
Defending marriage these days would seem to be a hill on which not so many are prepared to die. But why should that be the case? After all, there really isn’t anything more deserving of defense than the oldest institution in the world.
If the Church is to restore the moral landscape and fulfill the Great Commission, the work of restoration must begin within the Church itself.
The two main sources of criticism for what has happened in the Church since Vatican II are the conservative (“Reform of the Reform”) and traditionalist camps. How are they similar and how are they different?
We like to have countdowns to special dates: Christmas, New Year’s, etc. But we can’t have a countdown to the date of our death.
There is a growing childfree movement comprised of people who intentionally choose never to welcome children. Often people mistakenly see their own laziness and selfishness as very important aspects of their person that are worthy of protection and cultivation.
Luther’s theological positions were disastrously wrong, but his anguished search for certainty of his own salvation humanized him for me, as much as his screeching diatribes against the Church repulsed me.
If the Church desires active participation, then self-examination is in order.
Four simple changes to how we receive Communion will do far more to create a Eucharistic revival than any multi-million dollar program.
We’re in a new year and that means resolutions. But what resolutions can Catholics make that will help them both body and soul, and how can we make sure we stick to them?
Moving feast days to a more “convenient” day sends a message that the demands of this world are more important than the demands of the next.
Living wholly in the civil, present, temporal world tends to blur our attention to the “bigger picture.” Trying to live according to the rhythms of the liturgical year gives us perspective: everything is not about the right now and the demands of the moment.