Catholic singles, especially the ladies, have many things they do to prepare for the day they say “I do” and begin their married lives.
That Christmas has become more and more secularized is obvious. But we are not helpless against the tide. There are things we can do to
“And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior” – Luke 1:46-47 Given that this coming
The works of William Shakespeare abound with the truths of the Catholic faith. Especially in his later plays (often called the “romances”), Shakespeare focuses his
If you want to be a good Catholic, you gotta read your Bible. But the Church advises us: “sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another
Sometimes it is necessary to stop ourselves and retreat, to open ourselves and realign our thinking with the ways of God. If we don’t do
“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
Our first child was lost to miscarriage. He was too young to know his gender but my husband felt confident that he was a boy
“In the light of all this, I have decided to announce a Year of Faith.” Pope Benedict XVI The Holy Father asks the Faithful to
There”s a lot of great ways to engage in the Year of Faith. One of them is reading. Often times, folks don”t know where to
This summer I was at Mass on my birthday and before the lector began reading the first reading Father got up and said, “I just
As some of you know St. Therese’s Feast day is today. St. Therese, known as the Little Flower was known for a simple life lived
As a youth minister one of the number one questions teens ask me is, “Why do people suffer?” It is a fair question, and one
Why do people pray the rosary: to obtain special graces? to connect with God? as Christian meditation? in reparation for one’s sins and the sins
As my one-year master’s degree program in Pamplona, Spain closes, memories of my first days here flood back. I remember with fondness and embarrassment my
We know we need to do it; to put our busy lives on hold for just a bit, turn off the phone and computer and
Our personal crosses are curious things. Every good Christian knows that to follow Christ we must first take up our cross. And every good Christian,
Working with teens, most of my favorite questions deal with Mary. Mary is awesome, and there are a lot of misconceptions about what Catholics do
Talk radio can be extremely depressing these days. It seems every other station has bad news to announce to the American people as Obama’s dangerous
