The root of humility is not looking down upon oneself but choosing to love others and putting them first. Humility is necessary to be holy, but humility is also so difficult because being selfish is so easy. Saint John of the Cross proposed a different path: Always prefer to be taught by all, rather than [...]

How in the world can politics and money have anything to do with holiness? In this episode, we discuss the Beatitudes as reflected upon by Pope Francis in Rejoice and Be Glad and look at St. Thomas Moore. There can be any number of theories about what constitutes holiness, with various explanations and distinctions. Such [...]

How in the world can politics and money have anything to do with holiness? In this episode, we discuss the Beatitudes as reflected upon by Pope Francis in Rejoice and Be Glad and look at St. Thomas Moore. There can be any number of theories about what constitutes holiness, with various explanations and distinctions. Such [...]

You don t need to steal the free soda. Salvation is a free gift. We can t earn it. In this episode of the Catholic Heroes Podcast, we continue our discussion of Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis s most apostolic exhortation on holiness. In Chapter Two, he looks at two great enemies of holiness: Gnosticism and Pelegianism. What [...]

You don t need to steal the free soda. Salvation is a free gift. We can t earn it. In this episode of the Catholic Heroes Podcast, we continue our discussion of Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis s most apostolic exhortation on holiness. In Chapter Two, he looks at two great enemies of holiness: Gnosticism and Pelegianism. What [...]

The Catholic Heroes Podcast is all about the call to holiness and that each of us can be saints, Catholic Heroes. I was beyond thrilled to read and study Pope Francis s most recent Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate, Rejoice and Be Glad. We are going to take several episodes to take a deep dive in [...]

The Catholic Heroes Podcast is all about the call to holiness and that each of us can be saints, Catholic Heroes. I was beyond thrilled to read and study Pope Francis s most recent Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate, Rejoice and Be Glad. We are going to take several episodes to take a deep dive in [...]

What are you doing? Are you wasting your life? As I was getting ready to finish college, I hit a crisis point in my life where I had to decide whether I needed to make more money in life or I should follow the call I thought God had given me to do ministry. In [...]

What are you doing? Are you wasting your life? As I was getting ready to finish college, I hit a crisis point in my life where I had to decide whether I needed to make more money in life or I should follow the call I thought God had given me to do ministry. In [...]

Easter is the story of new life and transformation. Jesus is the not the only character in the story of Easter. Peter reminds us that each of us of is a character in the story of salvation history. We are invited to experience that transformation in our life as well. In this episode, we look [...]