Tag: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Becoming Relics – The Catholic Thing

As you surely know, not least because it has been mentioned repeatedly in these pages, the bishops of the United States, in preparation of the celebration for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence have consecrated the entire…

What Does Love Look Like?

It’s a commonplace observation that most people think more readily in pictures than in abstract concepts, and that stories move and transform us in ways that logical arguments often don’t.  God, who of course knows this, therefore has revealed…

Two Reflections on the Feast of the Sacred Heart

Human Hearts and the Sacred Heart Matthew D. Walz What is the “heart”? The Catechism proves helpful here. In a section on the unity of man, the Church teaches that man is “at once corporeal and spiritual” and that “man, whole and entire, is. .…