I continue to be amazed by how this secular society tries to twist Divine Mercy into blinking, happy-go-lucky acceptance of every behavior one can imagine.
We have just celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday during the season of Easter, which can rightly be viewed as a season of mercy. Pope Francis has
Outside of his family, General William S. Rosecrans had three great passions in his life: His religion, Roman Catholicism, to which he had converted as
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis recently released, Misericordiae Vultus, his Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. In this document, he lays out
“We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning
In November 2013, I wrote a column [link here] about my son leaving the Church, and going off on a journey, that was far away from
This is the first of two essays on the philosophy of the atheist cosmologist, Sean Carroll. The main idea carried over to the second essay
Shortly after Sr. Lúcia of Fátima died ten years ago, I remember remarking to someone, “Her death means we will only now come to know
The word “subsistent” is tricky. Modern day dictionaries define “to subsist” as “to be sustained,” or “to maintain existence” or “to support or maintain with
As a single mom of five boys, I pretty much know what I’m doing in the next five minutes or so. Beyond that is anyone’s
Have you ever wondered what emotions are for, and how they fit in with a life of faith and reflection? Emotions are important because they
According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at any given time, approximately 3 % of adults have major depression, also
My Christmas present to my wife this last year was a glider, which provides all the comfort of a recliner with the smooth rhythmic motion
What is the difference between a home and a hotel? Or a dormitory? If you were to come home to a clean house (cleaned by
There are more of us than there are of them. More laity than religious, that is. Throughout history, the great saints have gifted the Church with
You’ve probably heard about that baby girl who survived a car accident that killed her mother, hanging in her car seat for 14 hours until
Here’s what I’ve learned from the massive kerfluffle over Indiana’s RFRA: 1. Indiana is simply an intolerable (pun intended) place to do business, so mayors
Despite the fact the New Evangelization has been an ongoing emphasis by the Catholic Church for over forty years, it has failed to stem the
Recently, I have witnessed a rather disturbing trend on social media, and in comboxes at the end of articles, that suggest Christians really do not
This column is the fifth in a series of introductory essays on the document “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive,” the preparatory catechesis
Comparison is the thief of joy, so goes the saying. A bigger house, a bigger car, and a better job are always just out of
Proverbs is the book of wisdom that is said to be written by King Solomon. We often cite verses from this book of the Bible
