Overwhelmed In their book, “Overwhelmed: How to Quiet the Chaos and Restore Your Sanity,” authors Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory, evangelical Christians, offer readers a
William F. Buckley Jr., the patron saint of American conservatism, famously described the mission of his magazine, National Review, as “stand(ing) athwart history yelling ‘stop’”.
Even St. John of the Cross experienced depression. Take a look at Dark Night of the Soul if you’ve never read it. Mother Teresa was
When I was a kid, I would go to Mass and stand up in the back of the church with my foot up against the
I recently came across several articles which were based upon a large amount of excellent data that the Center for Disease Control collects annually. Thousands
I left Hawaii’s extraordinary climate just before the New Year to be with my 90-year-old parents on the wintry east coast near Philadelphia. I arrived
In the Hospital I was not just in the hospital but in the “Psychiatric Unit” of the hospital. This is what happened to me on
Contrary to popular reporting, Breast Cancer does not necessarily mean a death sentence for baby or mother. The truth of the matter is that both
The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy officially ends soon (November 20, 2016). Considering that fact, together with Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s canonization, perhaps it is time
Americans today have become health conscious. We are been conditioned by society – and perhaps for good reason – to start ‘working out,’ or at
I write this article thinking about a friend. This friend is Catholic and recently got into a situation which is obviously not very good
There was something about the 1960s and ’70s. Making life easy and devising all kinds of shortcuts marked these decades. Nothing epitomizes this like the
Back in high school, my shop teacher had us recite the abbreviated version Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer, the first sentence of the prayer popularized by
These are difficult times that we live in. The media bombards us daily with accounts of inappropriate, illegal and immoral actions allegedly committed by the
Scrupulosity, in the Catholic sense, is the tendency to focus on our sins too much, forgetting Our Redeemer and His mercy in the process.
Although most respectable members of our parishes try to look healthy and content in public, mental illness is as common and invisible among the faithful as it
Spring is in the air! The birds are rising earlier with the sun and the weather is warmer. Here in the Midwest, it is never a
My experience of being pregnant with cancer is that being pro-life is not a death sentence for a pregnant woman with cancer or her unborn child.
“Where are you, God?” many ask these days. He’s certainly hard to see in the utter chaos of today’s world. He’s hard to detect in
It was Our Lord who asked Peter three times, in rather unusual fashion: “Do you love me?” Peter answered three times, “yes – yes – yes.” And
I was a nerd, not a jock, a little flabby but not obese, interested in the brain more than the body, catching my breath after
This past January 20 marked the one year anniversary of the death of my friend, Paul Coakley. Last year I wrote two articles about my thoughts
In The Beginning I am a convert to Catholicism. In 2004, I was welcomed into the church. I was raised by Protestant parents; both were
