The worst possible fate for me would be to die and discover that I had lived an existence similar to the allegory described in Plato’s Cave. Plato
Having a parent in a nursing home means meeting new people. And so it was during a recent visit with my elderly parents in Michigan.
In his recent commencement address, the President of Christendom College, Dr. O’Donnell, reflected that everyone has his “Galilee”, a place where he connected with God
One of my favorite Scripture stories is the Parable of The Vineyard Workers ( Matthew 20:1-16) wherein a landowner pays the exact same pay 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 watching movies. As
When I became Catholic I had a lot of questions and a lot of issues with the things that the Catholic Church teaches; I spent
Over the course of our lives, it is inevitable that we will experience suffering. It is also inevitable that this suffering will cause us to
The Communion song this last Sunday at the 11:30 a.m. Mass was “The Servant Song”. One might say it’s one of those Gather Hymnal songs
Recently my son took me out to lunch. As we sat in the booth at the restaurant eating our hamburgers I looked down at my
In my August 5th post, I claimed that the foundation of all human knowledge is one’s own personal experience. Further I noted that no one
Roughly six months ago, after many prayers, tears and anxious months of waiting, my wife, Miriam, and I learned with great joy that we are
I confess. Somehow in this culture it seems like a weak little phrase. It lacks self-confidence. It suggests that you are not going to defend
TGIF . . . Who has not heard that expression of weekly survival signaling weekend revival? My research indicates that the expression coalesced from the popular celebrations of the completion
This week, we\’ve had some great role models for priests. St. John Eudes and Pope St. Pius X, both great men of holiness, men who
Robert McClory recently wrote an article for the National Catholic* Reporter, opining that Pope Francis should revisit the question of the morality of birth control.
I was just standing there looking into the foyer of the Cathedral to see if the door opened as a man pulled the handle. It
This week’s Gospel will likely have much less understanding or “willingness to accept” as the past few weeks. I believe that it was easier to
As Catholics, we are often leery of personal revelation because we are afraid of the being deceived but really, do we trust more in the
As a grad student in journalism, a number of my assignments come in the form of responding to a question, by way of an essay,
Sometimes the forest is ignored because too much time has been spent concentrating on the trees. The big picture loses out to the nitpicking of
Christianity has not been tried hard and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
I first met Pope John Paul II as “Mr. Seymour.” My cousins and I were playing a game of “funeral,” and trailing a tricycle with
