The Love That Made Mother Teresa

You know my God. My God is called love. —Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was among the most familiar faces of the 20th century — the first saint whose life–story was told in coffee–table books. Yet if a picture tells a thousand words, it worked the opposite with Mother Teresa. We all know what she looked like. But we know next…

Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved—in our families, in our work, in all our relationships. God is love. —Dorothy Day Dorothy Day’s dramatic conversion story has been compared to St. Augustine’s Confessions. In New York City in the years before World War I, she was a Marxist journalist who scorned religion and…

Weapons of the Spirit: Living a Holy Life in Unholy Times

  By David Scott and Mike Aquilina The Sermon on the Mount is the manifesto of the Christian life. Nowhere in the Gospel can we see the truly revolutionary character of Christianity and how completely it is opposed to the mind and practice of the world. Here is the pattern of human life as designed by the Creator himself. He wants…