Driving a cab in New York City gives one the opportunity to witness nightly the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Adulterers. Every year there
King David tells his son Solomon: Take Courage. Be a Man. (1 Kings 2:2). It\’s a great one-liner and a bestowal of manhood from a
According to some of the commenters on Dr. Kaczor\’s post “Does the Catholic Church Hate Women?” at Strange Notions, I\’m just an oppressed victim of
I was blessed a couple of weeks ago to chaperone a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and to
I admire devout Christians living godly lives. Without the help of the Catholic Church and the Sacraments, I’m not sure I would make the cut.
I\’ve looked at clouds from both sides now; From up and down, and still somehow It\’s cloud illusions I recall; I really don\’t know clouds
How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really \’lived\’? We live in a marketing led world – a place of big
My biggest vice, fortunately, is not an addiction. Well, at least not in the traditional use of the word. My informal diagnosis – although my
I once asked a priest what my life would have been like if I had not experienced suffering, if I had married a well-off dentist,
Every Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, across the country, the question is heard from little voices: “When is it Children’s Day?” Mothers and Fathers laugh
“…But I say to you: Whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Mt. 5:28) I
I have been thinking a lot about Heaven lately. I’ve been discussing it with my kids and my husband and here are some of the
“There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 “…but though he has permitted man to consider time in
Teach me, LORD, your way that I may walk in your truth. (Ps 86:11) Sounds simple, doesn’t it? I can’t imagine any Christian looking at
It’s really too bad that while the legal profession mandates continuing education for its members to maintain their licenses, the Catholic Church won’t revoke a
Recently, I went to Confession before Mass. I confessed my lack of trust in God as it applies to a current situation in my life.
“… for nothing will be impossible for God” –Luke 1:37 Christmas vacation as a graduate student is nothing short of spectacular. No more papers to
Today in Washington D.C. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in the annual March for Life. They come from all around the
Oftentimes the new atheists, including Richard Dawkins, are dismissed as offering nothing new, but simply expressing an evangelic fervor in spreading atheism. This could not
To be perfectly honest, we were feeling pretty good about things. As part of the diaconate formation in our diocese, each candidate is required to
Beginnings and endings, finite measures of years meted out for us again and again, season after season, generation after generation, age after age—all amount to
In this series of posts HOW TO FIND FAITH AT THE MOVIES, John invites readers to take a hero’s journey in search of faith through
As secular society brushes off Christmas for another year, Catholics know very well that Christmas never truly ends because, at the end of the day,
Yes, I decorated Saint Patrick’s Church for Christmas. Not Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, or Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Mulberry Street down in Soho,
