The fierce devotion that many Catholics have to Our Lady can seem over the top to those outside the Faith. I couldn't understand their devotion until I witnessed a Marian procession in Malta that shifted something in my heart.
The most important way to sanctify your home is to sanctify yourself! To live a holy life. But these Catholic customs can also help us to make our home or personal room a place of holiness and peace.
What kind of woman would sacrifice everything - including eventually her life - to aid Catholic priests during the English Reformation?
Far from being just escapism, the Lord of the Rings has much to tell us about the power of stories, the fight of good against evil, and how the deeds of ordinary people can have profound consequences.
The BBC dramatisation of War and Peace brought the 19th century to our living rooms. But how many of us consider some of the more serious themes in it?
We can tend to think of the spiritual life as one effort after another on our part to reach the goal. This is true to a point. However, what is specific to the Christian Faith is that it is God who comes to seek us out in the first place. If we run towards Him, it is because He is already running towards us.
