I heard the other day that Johnny, a friend from my high school days, died 6 months ago. We haven’t lived in the same town
In January, I attended my final session of the Alleluia School of Spiritual Direction. The topic of the two-week session was spiritual healing, and after
My mother died at the end of August. She’d been diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and for the next four and a half years she’d
It has been a while since I last wrote for Catholic Stand, I have missed you. Let me bring you up to date. Life has
I am a pro-life advocate, and my prayer is that women choose life for moral as well as health – both physical and psychological –
I have spent most of my life as a professional charter fishing boat captain, so I often think of life in terms of the ocean.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). We say many “comforting” things to people in “mourning.” Still, I have discovered
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” ~Victor Frankl (neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, Holocaust survivor) Wim Hof, colloquially known as
By Elizabeth McClung Grief changes the lens through which you see the world. Everything seems new. But, it isn’t new as in novel and filled
The death of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult of life’s circumstances. It’s a pain that never goes away. I know this for
Grief is almost the same as open-heart surgery. Nothing can hurt us, disintegrate us, heal us, or teaches us more valued soul lessons like grief.
A few weeks after the world went into lockdown, my wife bought us access to the website MasterClass. I largely ignored it until I saw
But save us by thy hand, and help me, who am alone and have no helper but thee, O Lord (Esther 4:14). My dad spent
There is a certain mysterious and mystical quality to the unfolding of the events of life when seen through the eyes of one who lives
Unimaginable Loss Tragedy struck our family in February of this year. My 47-year-old aunt Jeannine, with whom I was close, committed suicide during a night
