I currently am interviewing seven candidates for a marriage and family therapy associate in my practice when I chanced upon Andrew Miller’s article on the 3
I normally take great pride in being an American, but there are passages in our history which all Americans should be ashamed of. During our
Recently, after successfully getting through airport security, I began to reassemble my luggage and myself. I overheard the man behind me apologize. “Oh, I’m sorry,
Years ago, I was washing up some pots, just before dinner, when all of a sudden a word popped into my head, seemingly out of
I have been a hot mess lately. The good news is that the last time I felt this confuse and frazzled was when I was
Did you hear the true story of the Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors? Fr. Hubert Schiffer, SJ and at least four other Jesuits were living in
The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist. (Charles Baudelaire) In today’s academic milieu, you should expect that a Black Mass
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: \”What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” –
I was talking to a friend today about her son’s upcoming graduation from high school. Two of my own children have graduated already and so
I believe in miracles, in big ones and in small ones. God is still alive and well on planet earth. He still cares for us
“Go to Rome” was placed on my bucket list about four years ago. With good planning, it was about to become a reality, but one day
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.‘ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I
The task of the Inquisition is to determine the truth of allegations of hypocrisy of the member of a voluntary association. The target is the
Jesus was a son. His mother was Mary. At the annunciation, the angel Gabriel announced that she was chosen to bear into the world the long-awaited and
I cannot presume to understand the relationship between a woman and her mother. To her, the word “Mother” represents both her origin and her destiny.
I’ll never forget my gallbladder. We lived together and ate together and ultimately did everything together. I went nowhere without him. It wasn’t until I
Since the advent of social media, the problem of adultery has become worse. Sexual acts need not take place for adultery to be present. Internet
In many dioceses in the United States, we\’re getting right into the thick of Confirmation season, and as there tends to be a lot of
\”You are looking into that school?\” Many of my parents\’ friends looked at me with narrowed eyes. \”Every student has to take 20 credits of
“Quit forcing your religion on me! Your Pope might think that a fertilized egg is alive, that it’s human, but that’s your opinion. I believe in
As we’ve learned, Pope Francis is not one for detailed expositions of philosophical principles. He makes his points using simple one-liners and neologisms, expressions like,
This is the fifth in a six-part series on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s profound and heroic 1968 encyclical. The series’ introduction is here. The
