The young people at St. Mary’s in College Station have a flare for making old things new again, for transforming customs and practices that could be considered old fashioned or obsolete, into fresh, passionate expressions of the uniqueness and beauty of our Catholic faith. Aggie Catholics tend to add flourish to their devotion. Several of… [Read More]
The Audacity of Pope Francis
On Good Friday morning last week, I received this text message from a friend, “Your new Pope is all kinds of awesome.” You can probably derive from the message that my friend is not Catholic. He read in the news about Pope Francis’s Holy Thursday visit to wash the feet of prison inmates and, like… [Read More]
Beauty of Truth Podcast – Ep 11 Why is marriage a sacrament?
Ep 11 Why is marriage a sacrament? Questions Marriage is older than Jesus, how can it be a sacrament? What are the qualifications for a sacramental marriage? 16 M 14 F Have to consent Cannot already be married or ordained Have to have only 1 man and only 1 woman Cannot be related to… [Read More]