Most people are very busy. Busy seems to be the norm. Work, kids, house, commute, yard, sports, exercise, cooking, cleaning, the list goes on and
Tolerance. According to Webster, it’s a willingness to accept behaviors and beliefs that may be different from your own. At first glance, that would appear
Off the Shelf 237 – Kennedy Hall If you’re fed up with effeminate males and society’s attempt to diminish the role of males in general then this episode
By Michael Vance One has to wonder what’s wrong with some of our Catholic prelates these days. Instead of trying to save souls they seem
Is the company you work for one of the country’s biggest corporations? If so, does profit sharing factor into its mission? Profit sharing is that
We often pray for God to work miracles in others’ lives, to convert and change their hearts, but we don’t persist in asking God to
I came of age during the cultural changes of the 1960s. Even though my Catholic upbringing had taught me that sex outside of marriage was
Recently at Sunday Mass, the second reading was from 1 Corinthians 13 – the famous “wedding reading.” St. Paul tells us: “If I speak in
The Holy Spirit is proclaimed more by St. Luke than by any other gospel writer. One of his main purposes in writing his gospel and
Most books by Christians about the atheism versus theism debate start with the reasonableness of faith. Popular radio host and author Eric Metaxas starts with
What a tragedy if, at the end of my days when I stand before God, I finally realize that I spent my earthly life playing
There are still a lot of people inside and alone due to the virus restrictions in certain areas. There still are a lot of people
When the Columbine massacre occurred on April, 20th, 1999, I had only been Catholic for a few months. I was still getting tuned in to
After the sixties music expanded our minds, and before disco and stadium rock dominated the airwaves, the singer-songwriter genre took a firm hold in the
“Woman has a genius all her own, which is vitally essential to both society and the Church” (Pope John Paul II, Angelus Message of July
One definition of “love”: In religious use: the benevolence and affection of God towards an individual or towards creation; (also) the affectionate devotion due to
Off the Shelf 236 – Joe Heschmeyer This week Joe Heschmeyer joins me to discuss one of my favorite topics, the early church. Listen in
The Catholics who developed the website “Countdown to the Kingdom” say we are living in the “end times.” But before you jump to any conclusions,
When we are open to the Word of God, our Lord takes hold within us and transforms our lives by way of the Holy Spirit.
As we cavort amid an embarrassingly secularized and confused society, unmoored as it stands from the threads of a shared past or the common experience
When we act like a victim sacrifice, suffering for our own failings or like a scapegoat who suffers as the result of others sins, we
“Do not grumble,” St. Benedict tells his monks. (RB 4:39) The first time he mentions this is in the fourth chapter of his rule for
