My living room, as do many other Catholic homes, bears the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the front facing wall. This means
Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you
Online Catholics I’ve recently been discouraged by a number of responses to Catholics asking advice on the internet. Usually, a sincere Catholic posts a question
If I had to pick one thing I don’t love about being Catholic, the proof for the existence of Hell would be one of the
Pope Francis has my admiration because I hear the voice of love speaking through him. He always stresses God’s infinite mercy. People Accuse Pope Francis
The true meaning of the word mercy is often misunderstood and misused. Far from indicating that all bets are off and you are free to
As we celebrate the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us also embrace Mary our Blessed Mother who shares in the passion and
There is no small amount of discussion and even controversy over the meaning of the Hebrew word Selah. There are those who are firmly in
In Mark 10: 17 – 27, a disappointed rich young man walked away from Jesus when He told him what was needed to become perfect. Strangely
The announcement in our parish bulletin last spring seemed innocuous enough. A program entitled Transgender Homosexual Awareness (T.H.AW.) was being held to give parishioners
There are two things the father does in the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son which can give all of us sinners hope and comfort.
These days we hear a lot about “snowflakes.” These are young adults who must be protected from the least slight, whether real or imagined. Fortitude
One hundred years ago, the Blessed Mother came to three shepherd children in Portugal in a series of apparitions we call by the name of
No Faceless Crowd Before Jesus When we read, study, and pray with the Gospels it is important for us to remember who is the audience
The late Bishop Fulton Sheen explained the matters of conscience and that there are two kinds of truths: “Outer truths, which we master, like the
I Am a Loss Leader! Way back in the 1980s I was a marketing student. There was a common business term in those days, “loss
It’s been said that on December 25, 1914, during the First World War, an “unofficial ceasefire” occurred. On that day, German and British soldiers put
The Young Pope, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is premised on what is apparently a radical idea: that popes might experience spiritual growth even
We have had a lot of rain here in my hometown this summer. It was a wet spring and it appears it is going to
As Roger Scruton says, “Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.” That’s essentially the thesis of Terrence Malick’s recent trilogy
In the book of Luke, an expert in the law asks, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus responds with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. For the past five months I’ve been writing about the Beatitudes in order to understand them
Oh, the Aggravations We Face! Do you know someone whose purpose in life seems to be to aggravate you? You know what I mean, right?
In an age of rapidly increasing technology, mass higher education, and increasing prosperity it would appear that our lives are forever getting better. Our society
