As a Catholic, I am often challenged about our use and reverence for the crucifix. The most common charge has been that the crucifix
I was involved in an online discussion last week on Facebook and the points raised in the discussion illustrate many erroneous ideas many people, including
A war is brewing in the Philippines. And it is not a war of guns (although, much of the cause of this brewing war has
What Does the Father Desire? Have you ever stopped to think about that? I spend so much time telling the Father what I desire that
Almost 70 years ago a famous but now somewhat forgotten debate took place on BBC radio between Bertrand Russell and Rev. C. J. Copleston,
My 8-year-old grandson and a stranger both gave me a special gift one recent Sunday. And there I was thinking I was doing something good
“Give us this day our daily bread” … what does that mean? On the surface, it’s a simple acknowledgment that the things we need
Pride is something most of us understand to a certain extent. Or, at the very least, we think we know what it looks like when
“Today it is the Old Testament who suffers for the New one.” Sœur Mirjam Else Michaelis (1899 – 1942, Auschwitz) Can you imagine what might become
When we feel cut off from God, battling a losing war with ingrained sin, the only viable solution to our dilemma is to call out
This is Part II of the PostPersons story. In Part I a future was described in which the Supreme Legislature of the United States, once
One of my favorite movies, if not my favorite of all time, is Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. I watched this movie in my
I’m Okay. I’m Not So Sure About You or the Others… “But I’m a good person. I try to live the right way and not
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack. (Psalm 23:1) What could a shepherd possibly provide me that would leave me lacking of
There’s something wonderfully uplifting about being with hundreds of Catholic men to put aside our egos and bring our man-made messes before the Father as
My wife and I wanted to share New Year’s Eve with our eldest daughter. She lives in New Hampshire and we live in East Tennessee,
Celebrate Ordinary Time? Why celebrate anything that seems to just fill in the space between Christmas and Easter? The Sacrament of the Moment With all
I asked for it. I really did. I knew that I would never find peace until I got down on my knees and begged for
Thomas Hobbes described the state of nature as a war of all against all, in which life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” In
We have just gotten over some minor illnesses here at home, colds and pink eye. Even though we are just a family of four, it
The vocation of love unites pro-life people to build a “civilization of truth and love.” Saint John Paul II urged the world to the ‘Gospel
Vatican II Music If you read what the Second Vatican Council wrote about sacred music (in Chapter VI in the 1963 constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium) you will
