St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

XXV. Spiritual Directors

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

(not that kind of director!) Catholics like spiritual directors. Good luck finding one…but we like them a lot. Good luck finding a handy definition for spiritual direction as well. Basically, THE Spiritual Director is the Holy Spirit. The human director is a person with whom you discuss your spiritual journey, who teaches you to notice [...]

XIX: Retreats

Monday, June 9th, 2008

  Protestants have revivals. Catholics, being the more “I prefer experiencing the Spirit kneeling in silence under the stars, thanks” type, have retreats. And oh, do we like them. Ignatian exercises, high school senior retreats, engagement encounter, marriage encounter, Quo Vadis?, Cursillo, TEC, etc….Frankly, the creative Catholic with some cash could spend his whole life [...]

XII. Sex

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Catholics like sex. OK, now that you have picked yourself up off the floor, dusted yourself off…one would have surmised this surprising fact from the post Catholics Like Babies, eh?  Because, you may have noticed, the first often leads to the second.  Like it is some kind of natural consequence or something.  Wild. But Catholics [...]