Every year, as October comes around, many breast cancer victims like me find themselves inwardly groaning. How can efforts purportedly for our benefit be so
Am I the only one that did not see this coming? This week, on Oct. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand appellate rulings in
One fine day, bouncing along the potholes of a boulevard in New York, the driver of the car in which I was a passenger proclaimed
I found a magical lamp when I was a little girl. I’m not sure exactly how old I was, but my guess is about 8
I have always been fairly indifferent to the hits my blog posts receive, possibly since blogging makes up 0.00000 % of my income. However, over the
When our children are young, their doctors are our partners. They guide and aid us in ensuring our children are as healthy as possible. Unfortunately,
In part I, we looked at what forgiveness was and wasn’t. But along with prayer and receiving the Sacraments for aid, how can we put it
I love weekday morning Mass at my church. It is personal, loving, and closer to what I think the Masses must have been like for
I went to see “When the Game Stands Tall,” the “football movie” as I called it, when I purchased my ticket from the woman at
How many times have you heard this statement before? The Catholic Church is mentioned in conversation and all anyone can say is, “The Church is
There have been times when I realized a day was a Holy Day of Obligation and I bristled at the idea of fitting Mass into
Home for me is a 16 foot travel trailer at a camping “resort” in San Antonio, Texas. One afternoon last week, I was sitting in
My husband called on his way home from work, tired and hungry. He had been in Atlanta since before the sun came up, and now
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once wrote: If I could prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe
The rhetoric of the American Revolution was mild compared to that of the French Revolution. In Great Britain the monarchy had long since been replaced
In just a few days, from October 5th-19th, Pope Francis will hold a very special and rare event. An extraordinary synod, a meeting of select
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Matthew 18:21
The headlines are graphic and sickening. Christians are being murdered systematically in the Middle East. It seems that while we look on in horror, the world is
I am sitting here on my couch looking around the room. Candles give off a soft glow, and the fireplace looks warm and inviting. My
And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for
The Rev. Walter Baer of the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation in New Orleans has penned a letter that could be an epilogue from the
With its roots in Vatican II, the New Evangelization is a recognition that a crisis exists in the Church because large numbers of baptized Catholics
