
An Easter Retreat in the Mountains
Over the Easter weekend, my family and I traveled to a local mountain resort to get away from the city. We also thought it would

Over the Easter weekend, my family and I traveled to a local mountain resort to get away from the city. We also thought it would

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops estimates that some 30,000 people came into the Church at the Easter Vigil Masses this year. That is

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

An old proverb says silence is golden. Whoever came up with that proverb was on to something. Today, I went to a popular fast food

silence “The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.” (Meister Eckhart, 13th-century

Although popular wisdom proclaims silence is golden, in some circumstances silence can also be a form of bullying. As humans, our basic needs go

Being an active Catholic on social media who checks my Twitter and Facebook multiple times a day, I’m probably the last person you’d expect to

The Dave Matthews Band’s wonderful song “The Space Between” describes where he will be waiting for his love — in the “space between” the laughter,

I never have been a big fan of winter. Give me 90-degree temperatures with a chance to wear shorts and a T-shirt rather than 20

“All men need enough solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally”

“We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning

One perfect Word, and a world full of noise; one perfect proof of love, yet millions of lonely-hearted souls; one perfect God, and a bewildering

Why do we fear coming to God? Why does turning to God come only once we have no where else to turn in our trials?