On occasion, someone will ask me, essentially, “What am I supposed to do with this burden, and how am I supposed to handle this one?” Once
Poverty Versus Simply Being Poor For nearly a score of years, my wife and I lived in Central Texas. Much of that time, we worked with
One of the beauties of the internet is tremendous amounts of, often conflicting, or at the very least misleading material can be located in a trice.
Some large number of years ago, actually, a very large number of years ago, I recall watching a late night TV show and one of
Who Are The Silent Majority? The silent majority is, as we understand it, a large group of people who do not express their opinions publicly.
Growing up outside of Lowell, Massachusetts, in a French-Canadian home, we spoke French exclusively. My mother, a certified teacher in Canada, home schooled me a bit, and when
If it is new, it is not true, and if it is true, it is not new. Every once and again, a message, post, or
Looking back over the course of the years which have been accumulated thus far in my life, one of the items to which I have always returned has
Over the passage of time, I have observed a change in the Jones families I have encountered.The Jones family is that stereotypical family in the
If we can learn to love those whom we would otherwise call our enemies, we can grow closer to the Father. In this very familiar
Belief in God has been a constant throughout my career. As I look back over the decades, there have been very few constants, companies came
Many of the articles which appear on Catholic Stand are correctly concerned about the election, abortion, medical issues, technology which blurs reality, the general economy, and the
Not too long ago, I was blowing through all of the accumulated debris in my electronic mailbox(es) when one article caught my attention for a moment. The
A pilgrimage is one of the many joys and treasures of being a Roman Catholic. It is wonderful to stand on the streets in Rome,
It has been some time since I studied Latin ( According to the hand-written note on the inside title page of my text book, “Latin
I have long felt the word “catholic”, if simply used as a noun or an adjective, is improper. We will explore a couple of the eight
At first glance, the title of this article would seem to have little or no relationship to reality. After all, the Knights and the Vincentians
One morning another worker bee, Steve, asked if he could join us for coffee. Over the course of time, I had gotten the feeling Steve had
Music has Charms to sooth a savage Breast The above phrase was coined by William Congreve, in The Mourning Bride, 1697, and has long been
Three kinds of Catholics From time to time, our work schedule disrupted the now weekly Tuesday morning coffee breaks Josh, my cube farm neighbor, and
I heard my neighbor, in our massive cubicle maze, call over the wall, “Hey Dan, you have time for coffee?” Before I could hang up
Early in the 1950’s, before JFK, cell phones, DVD recorders, 9-11, even before Elvis, Archbishop Sheen had a weekly television program on the Dumont television
