Lest you think I’m writing about the “other” cafeteria Catholic as one standing in judgment, I want to give you a little back story. I
A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope?
“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” This is the question pondered by Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner at a forced-labor camp in
Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new
A few months ago, I quit the full-time job I’d landed right out of school, married a college senior, moved four states away, and planned
On Good Friday, 2008, fewer than 24 hours before my wife and I joined the Catholic Church, I spoke to my father-in-law on the
***Warning:This is a Crying Post, Grab Your Kleenex*** Three years ago, we lost our Bernadette half-way through pregnancy to a knot in her cord.
The one issue voter is dead. Today’s elections are no longer about a single issue. Here is a list of One Issues: Abortion Euthanasia Embryonic
In January of 2006, just short of my 20th birthday, I stood in front a priest, my friends, and 2,000 people at a parish and
Greg and Jennifer Willits, co-hosts of the Catholics Next Door, formerly on the Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Catholic Channel, announced the re-launch of their podcast program
“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.
Remember that series we started? With this handy-dandy little reference sheet? Well, you’ll probably need the Fire Nation blurb for this post. In the Avatar
After almost a year of ballet I’m still super horrible. I never realized how physically demanding it was, how literally every muscle in your body
I have heard the defense many times and it ends conversations. “Men can speak about abortion when they get a uterus.” At first,
Below is the conclusion to my conversation with Teri and Amanda about special needs etiquette. You can read Part I here. How do you want
In our current election cycle, perhaps more than any other in the last forty years, we have two candidates for President with stark, contrasting views
One recent evening, I shook a bottle of hot sauce over my burger and watched the news from the kitchen table. Popular that night was
As my son laid in the neonatal intensive care unit with promises of severe mental and physical disability, I stood at a Wal-Mart, watching an
I feel I can speak for many people that Catholic teaching on sexuality comes across most of the time as a big laundry list of
Imagine living in a desert of burning sand. Sand so hot that any hotter it turns to glass. Now imagine that scorching drops of fire fall from the sky and the only way to escape these fiery flakes is to continue running. Now imagine that this episode lasts for all eternity.
Election-season whoppers are nothing new to politics, Presidential or otherwise. The number of exaggerations, empty-promises, false claims, and flat-out lies which make their way into
