Unless you’re independently wealthy and have no need of money, you’re going to need to work. When we look around at the work Catholics are doing, we often find them doing things that aren’t worthy of Catholic workers. How many Catholic women are going to try to sell essential oils or kitchen gadgets? How many Catholic men are going to work for secular companies? Why not work for an end that both provides income and serves a virtuous cause? The Catholic Church teaches that the role of the laity is to direct temporal affairs according to the will of God. … Continue

It is common today to hear young adults talking about their lives and claiming that their body is their own and they have the right to do with it whatever they please. This may be true legally in many ways, but it is not true morally. You have received your body freely from others. It was conceived by you mother, nurtured through pregnancy, delivered safely with the help of doctors, nurses and midwives, fed during infancy, protected from many dangers, provided for throughout childhood and led into adulthood. While you may make choices that avoid some troubles, you can in … Continue

As Catholic parents, we have a duty to evangelize our children, to raise them to know, love and serve God in this life. Outside of our relationship, there are billions of influences in the world that will seek to draw our children away from God, to their own service. There are a few influences in the world that will help us, but we will have the greatest influence on our children. The world seeks to separate our children from us, but how can they succeed? How can strangers possibly draw children away from Catholic parents who love them sincerely and … Continue