Newfound adoration fueled my already insatiable appetite for the Catholic faith, spurring my desire to consume even more information. The conviction I had been feeling paled in comparison to the sense of captivation that supplanted it. There were no more dragons guarding the treasure.
Read MoreI wrote this poem during the height of the BLM movement in 2020. At the time, I was processing my emotions and examining my heart after Blackout Tuesday — trying to make some sense of the tragedies that sparked its creation. I decided to share it to help others process their own emotions.
Read MoreChristians in the East traditionally sing a hymn by St. Romanos the Melodist at Easter. Again and again the beautiful and mysterious words “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death” are repeated by the faithful. But how can Jesus conquer death by death?
Read MoreThe most significant and, thus, terrifying impact of this year’s election is only tangentially related to the victor. More corrupt than Hillary Clinton and scarier than Donald Trump is the rapidly accelerating devolution of the mainstream media’s sense of journalistic integrity.
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