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
There are many painful experiences that are a part of our lives this side of heaven. These can be emotional such as disappointment, heartache, betrayal,
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” Five Man Electric
Every society, every culture has a tradition of a scapegoat: a person or group of people to blame and punish for the sins of that
There are a number of things that distinguish Catholics from Protestant Christians. One of these things is a belief in purgatory. Protestants think that simply accepting Jesus
In her very short and intentionally lived life, Kateri nourished and achieved the kind of total self-giving that I am only feebly struggling toward day
Back in the 1990’s, there was a group of initials (WWJD) that found its way across the United States and the world. Anything that could
On October 21, 2012, the Algonquin-Mohawk woman, Kateri Tekakwitha, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI, along with six other holy men and women, in St.
Have you ever wondered what it will be like to enter heaven? I read a story a while back about near-death experiences. The story that
