by Monica Ashour | Mar 20, 2023 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, Virtues, Lent
Do you remember your childhood days when your mom would guide you in moderating your helpings for a meal or dessert? “Only two pieces of candy.” “Only one helping of spaghetti.” “Only two helpings of ice cream.” (How good that two helpings of ice cream were allowed!)...
by Emily Archer | Jul 21, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Catholic Life, Culture
“Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.” – G.K. Chesterton People in our culture today—and I am by no means excluding Catholics from this observation—are both fascinated and repulsed by the idea of boundaries. We...
by Patrick Gordon | Jul 14, 2021 | TOBET Blog, Catholic Life, by Patrick Gordon, Culture
The recent celebration of Independence Day is an opportunity to reflect upon our country’s great esteem for the value of freedom. Here, one does not need to be a scholar or historian to recognize that the idea of freedom has undergone—or I should more accurately...
