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 [...]

XVIII. Sanctification

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I’m talking about Sanctification–making things holy.  Or more accurately, turning things over to God, to be used for his purposes.  Catholics do this all the time–usually with the help of a priest. We do it to metals, strings of beads, necklaces–things that for non-Catholics are jewelry, we have blessed, made holy, sanctified, and voila! They’re [...]

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.  [...]