There’s nothing too small, I can still find its charm and paint it in gold and quite big, I hold it up high without even
“Oh no! Here they come!” At 8 am sharp, this is the thought going through my mind as the gates open to the noisy, bustling
An abundance of well-known celebrity scientists these days are proclaiming that there is no God, because God can’t be proven by the scientific method. This
“That’s a phone call from God,” my spiritual director told me. I had just shared with her the physical and emotional reactions I recently noticed
The bench on the beach is a place to sit, to think, to be. “It’s gone! My bench is gone!” My long-suffering and beleaguered husband, used
Death has been on my mind a lot lately. This week I heard about the deaths of two people, one from my graduating class in
Background Way back in a fifth-grade classroom conversation, I recall citing Fatima and/or Lourdes as proof for God’s existence. To myself and the 50+ other
The recent Feast of The Visitation got me to thinking about one of my favorite phrases in Scripture. The phrase is that Mary went “in
For many woman Rachel’s Vineyard is a sanctuary. It’s like an oasis in a desert of emotional turmoil. So just what exactly is Rachel’s Vineyard, one might
The Church is in danger of serious decline and I believe the disaster can only be arrested by Parish Priests. After the Second World War
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” [John 8:12]. Truly,
In addition to L’Azione Cattolica Italiana (Italian Catholic Action, which I wrote about last month) AGESCI is another impressive lay group in Italy. AGESCI stands for
“In an increasingly secularized culture, the lines around many moral issues have grown blurry beyond recognition.” If you agree with this statement (or even if
This is the final article in a series of articles aimed at helping you to get your lapsed Catholic loved one going to Church again
The Eucharist is many things with one being that of “Remembrance.” The narratives in Luke and in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians all contain
The second coming of Christ, enshrined in the Apostle’s Creed, is the hope of all Christians both living and dead, and has been since the
Marvel Studios reenergized the portrayal of comic book characters in motion pictures when it launched a series of movies beginning with “Iron Man” in 2008.
Luisa, one of the two young romantic leads in the musical stage play “The Fantasticks,” cries out in frustration in Act 1, “Please, God, please!
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could be unhappy? ~ Oscar Wilde My friends, I
This is the fourteenth in a series of articles aimed at helping you to get your lapsed Catholic loved one going to Church again and
There was a pile of small books next to the church bulletin. I glimpsed at it and smiled at the title. In bold print, it
This is the thirteenth in a series of articles aimed at helping you to get your lapsed Catholic loved one going to Church again and
