“If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”
Advent Is a Time of Waiting But How Do We Wait? Do we wait with joyful expectation or has life’s disappointments left us jaded
“When the heart speaks, Brother Orchid, other hearts must listen.” Brother Orchid (1940) Interested in seeing a screwball comedy-film-noir-gangster-western-religious flick? I am always on the lookout
Last Saturday, Robert Lewis Dear went into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and committed an anti-life crime. He killed 3 people and injured
You guys have your own calendar? We, the fellow from the adjacent carpeted cell in this vast sea of cubicles and I, had made it
The days immediately after Thanksgiving have traditionally marked the start of the Christmas shopping season since at least the 1930s, but the name “Black Friday”
There are constant reports about how attendance at Mass continues to fall, and how this is mainly due to the disinterest of men. In one
The secret to a successful lifestyle of any Catholic entrepreneur is excellent time management skills. But how do you exactly do that? With so many
The holidays always remind me of how different I am from my husband. He is a doer. He does things. He wakes up every morning
During this time of year, we pause and give thanks for all of the blessings we have in our lives. These blessings become even more
During the research for my book Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael, I came across some intriguing research on the movement known
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens,
A figure with a torch walks into a giant, dark room. As she draws closer to the objects surrounding her, she sees that they are
Catholic priests are heroes to me. After the sacrifice and moral fiber of my own father in this earthly life, the spiritual fathers God has
“What do you say?” Every parent has probably said that phrase at least a hundred times to their child, a reminder for the child to
I believe we often have definitive rationales for what we acknowledge as true and for what we do, even though we may have difficulty expressing
Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary In 2000, you probably could have
“He’s dead because of me. And I’m trying to… been trying to get me head around it, but I can’t. I will have always have killed
Adversity has taken on a different form today in our culture than in times past. A lot in the way of adversity is hurled at the
Infant burials are a reality that we need to not only address, but accommodate in respecting our Faith Tradition. The photograph you see here is
Our first essay contest was quite exciting. We received an impressive number of entries, making it quite challenging to narrow them down to just one.
Trying to make sense out of our country’s thoughts and feelings when it comes to suicide is like trying to decipher a map made up
