Tag: Simcha Fisher

Building a treehouse turns out to have a surprising amount in common with raising children: you will make mistakes, you will need help, and sometimes the best thing you can do is stop, have a snack and try again, writes Simcha Fisher.

As long as you are alive, you have the freedom to do well by your kids, no matter how old they are.

Halfway through Lent, we heard the Gospel reading where Jesus tells his disciples twice, in fairly stark and violent terms: If you do not repent, you will perish.

When Donald Trump’s media team shared images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St Michael, American Catholics went bananas. Yet if they really want to witness to the belief that the Donald is doing the work of God, they should pick up a pair of Trump Sneakers ($399) or Trump-branded “God Bless America” Bible, writes Simcha Fisher.

Time need not be the meaningless tick-tick-tick of the clock. It can also be the secret ingredient of our success, if we let it. This is as true for Catholic life as it is for the sublime art of hotdog manufacturing, writes Simcha Fisher.

When an unassuming chapel in an out-of-the-way town appeared on a Facebook page about eerie “liminal aesthetics,” commenters were comforted rather than unsettled. In our in-between lives, simple places of purpose retain their charm, writes Simcha Fisher

My nine-year-old was recently confirmed, the first in our family who has received both the “restored order of sacraments” and whole-family faith formation. As a way of emphasising that faith is a matter for our whole lives, it has serious strengths, writes Simcha Fisher.

Noisy public activism isn’t all bad, but in general I’m skeptical when it draws attention primarily to the activist. Our efforts are most effective when we lay aside our ego, and serve others, writes Simcha Fisher.

It seems like such a “little thing” to revere the Holy Name of Jesus. But life is about getting the little things in order. So treat the Lord’s name carefully, writes Simcha Fisher.

We all know the story of Jesus making a whip of cords and knocking over the money changers’ tables in the temple. People do love this passage, and generally imagine themselves as Jesus, wrecking the place when sinners aren’t acting right.

When non-Catholics are scandalised by our God, church and sacraments, it’s a sign our faith still has spiritual power, Simcha Fisher writes

According to tradition, World Youth Day is being largely ignored by the secular press and is being marked with nonstop complaining by Catholic social...