Over the past 40+ years, I have learned that God’s love and mercy is beyond anything we can comprehend or grasp. It is Catholic teaching
In the western Church, we’re familiar with many of Mary’s apparitions and miracles. But our Church is broader than the face we see most often.
People suffer—good people and bad people. When the so-called good people suffer, many of us look at the so-called bad people thriving and complain. Scripture
Can You Hear Me, God? Can you hear me, God? I have a strong faith. I know He always hears me, yet my prayers do
Molly McCully Brown‘s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded is a magnificent collection of poems, depicting the experiences of profoundly disabled persons who, shunned
Two years ago, my mother-in-law entered a hospice facility. She was afraid to die and afraid to be alone, so I stayed at the hospice
My grandmother, Opal, never raised her voice. She found joy in the simplest things: reading a book, playing scrabble, or completing her crossword puzzles. Her
It came earlier than usual this year. Typically the “lake effect” snow doesn’t hit until January and then comes regularly through April. It takes the
The first thing I thought, when I awoke from my nap, was that the pain couldn’t possibly be as bad as it felt. It didn’t
