CatholicAnchor.org One of the shocks of the spiritual life is how fast we can lose our freedom. I have people in my parish who suffer from alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction to computers, pornography, self-abuse, abuse of others, over working, preoccupation with beauty, and the list goes on. My advice to anyone who senses another god…
Worry captures and holds onto us so that we can’t seem to shake it. The advice, “Don’t worry” seems simplistic when facing a life threatening disease, loss of a job or a breakup of our family. But the call to not worry rests on whom we place our trust in and where we find our…
CatholicAnchor.org Worry captures and holds onto us so that we can’t seem to shake it. The advice, “Don’t worry” seems simplistic when facing a life threatening disease, loss of a job or a breakup of our family. But the call to not worry rests on whom we place our trust in and where we find…
CatholicAnchor.org A favorite quote of mine comes from George Bernard Shaw: “God created man in his image and then man returned the favor.” We might say the same about how many people try to make the church into the image of the present culture or serve the present political agenda. The left wants the church…
CatholicAnchor.org People outside Russia usually ask me how and what I am doing. I then give a litany of what we are doing, leaving out what we should be doing and our failures. At the end of the conversation I run to the nearest priest to confess the sin of exaggerating in order to look…
CatholicAnchor.org I serve as a Catholic priest in a country that suffered under Communist materialism where God was an enemy of the state, the church needed destroying and faith in Christ was considered no better than superstition. For nearly a century, Christians across the world have offered prayers for the conversion of Russia. Is it…