This column is the tenth in a series of introductory essays on “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive,” the preparatory catechesis for the
On a plane ride back from a Las Vegas seminar, I sat next to a 20-something community college student. I learned he had a golf
Lately, there is a lot of talk within Christian circles how to live the Faith in the midst of a morally-decaying (and increasingly hostile) Western
I am hoping that writing this article will be therapeutic for me. I could not write at all for a few weeks. My twenty-year-old nephew
At Mass last Sunday, the urge to write a poem came to me. My fingers itched to write down the words describing the choir,
That Planned Parenthood was selling baby organs (oh excuse me, “tissue” according to the PP public statements, but not according to my biology teacher) didn’t
Maybe the undercover investigation conducted by the Center for Medical Progress needed to happen so people could see and hear the gruesomeness of Planned Parenthood’s
Recently I conducted a survey of my book and article readers. I wanted to know how this largely Catholic and professional group viewed current stressors
After the recent discovery by five Supreme Court justices of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the self-described forces of love, tolerance, and acceptance have taken
I was a Catholic Worker in Nebraska from 1976 til around 1980. What I can say is that working with the poor and living among
“…we shall lose a large portion of that wonderful and incomparable, artistic and spiritual reality, Gregorian chant. We indeed have reason for sadness and perhaps
The recent United States Supreme Court decision declaring by man’s authority that two people of the same sex have the right to marry in all
Five years ago, I heard about a couple of other women praying to St. Anne for her intercession that they would, “find a man, as
When I became a Catholic at 19, I was overjoyed to discover a wealth of wisdom and teaching on prayer, spirituality and the faith. It
The Supreme Court’s recent rendering on same-sex marriage continues to be met with mixed emotions. Many feel this was the correct decision since those who
If familiarity indeed breeds contempt, as the ages-old proverb says, then I’m bewildered in trying to explain why I have been increasingly drawn to the
This just in . . .Everyone in the whole world will one day die! The only exception to this inevitable event is if we are alive at
The recent Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision declared that legal marriage must be extended to same-sex couples. This is a monumental legal decision
We are all aware of the need for increased vocations to the priesthood and deaconate in response to the growing demands and complexities of modern
As is our habit for July birthdays, my adult daughter and I go to a movie to celebrate. This is a decades long tradition for
I was curious about the logistics. How did Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka have kids? In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, they explained. “It
So-called same sex marriage is rooted in 1960. It was then that the second most significant event in history occurred with the invention of
