I recently made a post on Facebook complaining about the evil-looking toys that are included in some of the so-called “kids meals” at fast food
The Gospel for next Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, is the meeting between Our Lady and her elderly pregnant cousin Elizabeth. Mary set out
Recently I received a question from someone who is not Catholic. Although she thought it might be a silly question (it wasn’t) she wanted to
I recently went on pilgrimage to the great state of Wisconsin, a state that I had never been to before. The purpose of my trip
There is a serious Catholic “man-crisis.” One in three baptized Catholic men in the U.S. have left the Church. Of those men who remain Catholic,
GK Chesterton suggested that the fall of man is a view held around the world; in fact, “It is not only the only enlightening, but
Have you ever met someone who really made you stop and think, or even rethink, your faith life? Or perhaps you read an article, essay
The grief and heartache of the lives lost in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during Thanksgiving week, were soon followed by violence in San Bernardino, California. Coloradoans
Everywhere I go these days, it’s cold. The official beginning of winter is less than three weeks away, and here in the Midwest the temperatures
“If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”
Advent Is a Time of Waiting But How Do We Wait? Do we wait with joyful expectation or has life’s disappointments left us jaded
The days immediately after Thanksgiving have traditionally marked the start of the Christmas shopping season since at least the 1930s, but the name “Black Friday”
There are constant reports about how attendance at Mass continues to fall, and how this is mainly due to the disinterest of men. In one
During the research for my book Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael, I came across some intriguing research on the movement known
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens,
A figure with a torch walks into a giant, dark room. As she draws closer to the objects surrounding her, she sees that they are
Catholic priests are heroes to me. After the sacrifice and moral fiber of my own father in this earthly life, the spiritual fathers God has
“What do you say?” Every parent has probably said that phrase at least a hundred times to their child, a reminder for the child to
I believe we often have definitive rationales for what we acknowledge as true and for what we do, even though we may have difficulty expressing
“He’s dead because of me. And I’m trying to… been trying to get me head around it, but I can’t. I will have always have killed
Adversity has taken on a different form today in our culture than in times past. A lot in the way of adversity is hurled at the
Infant burials are a reality that we need to not only address, but accommodate in respecting our Faith Tradition. The photograph you see here is
Our first essay contest was quite exciting. We received an impressive number of entries, making it quite challenging to narrow them down to just one.
Today we are continuing the series we began last month on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. This month, we are looking at the so-called
