August has always meant Football for me. And maybe it’s just me, but football makes me think about religion. I am not a sports fanatic,
While I’m neither a theologian nor a Bible Scholar, I’ve always thought that the Bible is really very clear and straightforward in regard to both
Although I have been Catholic since birth, I was dismissive about the benefits of being Catholic for most of my life. However, over the past
Recently, I experienced disappointment. Upon hearing this news, I could not help but complain and feel sorry for myself. “Why would God take away this
I have trust issues. It’s precisely this fact about me which limits my public self-revelation, and which more than anything else explains why I’m still
What will the future be like? Our inability to answer this question with certainty has never stopped us from wondering and guessing, both about our
Losing a pet can be difficult. My neighbor recently lost her pet kitten. Her eight-year-old daughter began crying inconsolably when she learned of this loss.
If anyone reading has ever driven down Interstate 70 from Wichita, Kansas to Denver, Colorado, then you will know how completely uninteresting the drive can
Like many, I do not always pay much attention to the many saint feast days unless it is a particular saint that has personal meaning
I was pleasantly surprised by the response that my previous article, entitled The Devil Preys on Idle Souls, received from viewers. As a result, I
It had been some time since the three of us, my two non-Catholic co-workers and I, had gone to coffee together. Josh and I had
It has been said that prayer is communication with God, a spiritual give and take session, a holy interchange between Lover and Beloved. Often that
We have had a lot of rain here in my hometown this summer. It was a wet spring and it appears it is going to
I found myself placed next to a high powered High Court Judge at a dinner party in one of the most exclusive clubs in London.
Today there are many people who claim to be atheists. Some famous ones, like Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, have even written books
A road trip on a weekend and making sure you can still get to Mass can sometimes result in a very pleasant surprise and a holy
While staying in a remote rural hermitage in western Ireland, there happened to be one day and night that was totally clear — a rare
“Who did you bring with you?” That, Dear Reader, is the question God will supposedly ask us Christians when we beg admittance to the Heavenly
Have you ever pondered this question? “How do I know God’s will for my life”? I believe God has placed this question deep within our
To be sure, morally or otherwise, no one is good in the sense of perfect. We are usually only good in a relative sense. We
For parents of small children, summer vacation only means one thing — a non-stop set of demands for activities. I don’t know about the other parents
As I write this article for Catholic Stand (July 6, 2017), the battle to free one of the cities in the southern part of the
In the book of Luke, an expert in the law asks, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus responds with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
In conversations with Catholics from around the country, one will encounter varying levels of devotion to Our Lady. Such devotions seem to run along a
