When Fr. Ray Leonard arrived to say Sunday Mass at the base chapel on Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base he got an unwelcome surprise: the
So what do social thinkers have to say about “success” in business and life? Is there such a thing as a success prescription? Following a
Two people can look at the same thing and see two very different things. For instance, what do you think of when you see the
Taken from: OrderofMercy.org (with permission) (Sep 16, 2013) With surprising candor, the man who was to become Pope Francis warned his fellow Christians of the
A few of the skirmishes continue, perhaps, but isn’t the war against so-called “same-sex marriage” effectively over? Aren’t we Catholics on the losing side of
Nor, perchance did the fact which We now recall take place without some design of divine Providence. Precisely at the epoch when the American colonies,
Some of you may have heard of the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, which states that, for many events, 80% of the
The past six months have been some of the hardest months of my life. I used to think that the months that I was in
Last year I re-read the popular novel Into the Wild for one of my graduate classes. The book confronts adventure, solitude and the search for
Global warming and Catholicism do not mix. If you do not agree with this, you could be right. In either case, however, there is nothing
One of my favorite clichés to refer to when talking about atheism has been that human cliché Richard Dawkins. Nobody just reads his books, we
Pope Francis makes me uncomfortable. There…I said it! Somehow I think that I\’m not the only one who feels this way. Every time the Holy
From where I sit, the online bickering between opinionated Catholics looks like a juicy scene straight out of divorce court. Care to see the eye
Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? Shakespeare, Hamlet, II:ii On July 16, 2011, during the funeral rites of Dr. Otto
It’s ironic. The same day President Obama was in New York lecturing the United Nations on human rights and moral imperatives, a religious congregation of
With a second mega-interview with Pope Francis now appearing in La Repubblica and with a wide-ranging interview published September 19, our Holy Father Pope Francis has
Editor\’s Note: This is a guest contribution from reader Philip A. Dzialo, and it accompanies Tammy Ruiz\’s article, Be Not Afraid, Be Not Mean. It
In August we celebrated our oldest son’s graduation from high school. You might be wondering why we waited until August to celebrate. Because we homeschool
In my work with newly bereaved families (in perinatal death) and in my life experiences of suffering, I have seen a strange dynamic over and
What do an evolutionary biologist, the International Theological Commission and St. Thomas Aquinas have in common? They use words like contingent and contingency, but with
This is my 12-stage, decision-maker\’s summary of philosopher Mortimer Adler\’s argument found in his book Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity
Tantum ergo Sacramentum Down in adoration falling veneremur cernui;
