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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
Ever since Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis three-and-a-half years ago, the mainstream media (MSM) has pulled out all the stops in an effort to paint
There are evil things that some people really, really want to do. There are some people who not only want to do evil things but also
There is quite a bit of interest these days in genealogy. Websites like Ancestry.com offer their extensive databases and resources to trace a family’s lineage.
In the past week, two million pilgrims from all over the world traveled to Krakow, Poland to celebrate World Youth Day and to remember its
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Rene Descartes is known for the most well-known quote in all of philosophy, “Cogito, ergo sum” – I think, therefore I am. Apparently, when he
Pope Francis made the following statement in a homily a few years ago on the topic of the Holy Spirit in our lives: “This is
This article on persecution is the fifth in a series called, “The U.S. Military and the Catholic Faith: A Comparison”, which examines the comparisons between
