Tom Hoopes“For freedom Christ set us free,” St. Paul said. It’s true: But the readings give us a picture of freedom redefines our ideas about what makes us free.
Posts by Tom Hoopes
Sometimes pro-lifers want to downplay the importance of birthdays. After all, they say, a person starts life months before that. They shouldn’t. Birthdays are enormously important — so much so, we think
St. Aloysius, whose feast day is June 21, is the exception that proves the rule. His biological father was no help … but fathers in Roman collars were.
Worthily receiving communion says you willing to die with Jesus, Church Fathers say — and receiving it unworthily says you are willing to kill Jesus.
I used the Marvel movies to teach my children the importance of understanding the Eucharist, and I have been bragging about it incessantly since.
Who was Jesus in the womb? Tom Hoopes explores this and many other questions in this episode of The Extraordinary Story.
God is the Trinity, and God made us in his image. What does that mean for us? And how does it tell us what we should do?
Wisdom from Pope Francis and Catholic experts in gender dysphoria.
In the month of the Sacred Heart what if, instead of arguing, we flood the internet with a different image, one which the Lord promises has power?
This week on The Extraordinary with Tom Hoopes, we will return to Nazareth and meet Joseph. We will discover how Joseph is greater than Abraham, greater than David, and why Mother Teresa