I thought I had overcome my addiction to athletics, but the Olympic games in Rio reawakened it, so I spent most of the last weekend glued
One Saturday morning about a year and a half ago I attended training to volunteer at the local county jail. During the training, the deputy
This election season has been placing many into a state of confusion, leaving them to wonder about the direction our nation will soon be heading
Things are messed up today in America, but it’s not all Obama’s fault, even though he does deserve a lot of the credit. Our problems
The somewhat controversial conservative activist Pamela Geller wrote an essay last year entitled “The Poo Generation.” The thrust of Geller’s essay is that the ‘Poo
Lately, I find myself saddened by our American society. Our culture of death does not respect the dignity of every human life, disregards truth and
Love is a Decision I heard a reference from one of the saints that “love is a decision”. In our culture and in Hollywood, love is
One of my favorite TV shows is the Netflix series about the Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil. What I truly like about the series is how
The world of Catholic spirituality is, in a word, immense. Contemplative, Ignatian, Dominican, Carmelite- you get the idea. Yet as I spent time looking for
The rosary is not just for little old church ladies and pious nuns locked up in convents. It’s been prayed by brave soldiers, young martyrs,
On False Prophets in Politics This election year, more than others, has brought back memories of behaviors reminiscent of my high school years. Young teens,
To support his atheism, Bertrand Russell proposed the analogy of a celestial teapot. He noted that the burden of proof is not on the skeptic
I write this while enjoying a week on a lake in southern Maine. It’s the same place we’ve gone for our annual family reunion for over
Death is as common as birth, obviously, but old age homes and palliative care facilities efficiently remove the dying from the public eye. Consequently, most
The Mass readings for this last Sunday, August 7, have as their common theme trust in the Lord. Another word for this trust is
I recently had my second baby and informed myself a lot more on natural labor and birth than the first time around. It was amazing
What Jesus Said to Us About Giving In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus tells us about giving, “Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money
One evening, one of my co-workers came to me with a question. She was having trouble with someone she works with at another job. The
Looking back over the course of the years which have been accumulated thus far in my life, one of the items to which I have always returned has
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of this generation’s most iconic financial literacy books. Written by Kiyosaki and Lechter in the late 1990s, it
Recently I wrote about the sacred touch used by the first Apostles and their successors to hand down the love that had been received by
About a month ago, during the Euro Cup, I was impressed reading a few pieces in the press about Mesut Özil, an extremely talented Muslim
