My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the...
Before proceeding, let me clarify the purpose of this reflection. Daycare in a time of genuine...
What amazing times we live in. Just this week… Same sex partners can now marry in Germany. The Pope’s top aide is traveling to Australia to defend himself against charges of child sex abuse. New Jersey...
I grew up in an era of telephone and elevator operators. They were quickly replaced by technology. Next came pumping your own gas and the station attendants disappeared. Several of my relatives worked in the automobile...
My mother was blind. She had lost her sight when she was about 40 years old. She went home to be with the Lord when she was 88 years old. So my mom lived more than half of her life deprived of sight. But in spite of her...
Our Congress operates without a balanced budget. In fact they operate without a budget at all. Congressional bills and spending authorizations flow through the House and Senate and decisions are made on each—...
On June 14 a man opened fire with a rifle at a group of Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a baseball game with their Democratic counterparts, severely injuring Congressman Steve Scalise and also injuring four...
During the 1950s, there was a radio and television show entitled Father Knows Best. The show followed the lives of the Andersons, a middle class family living in a Midwestern town. One history of the show characterized...
Recently, while flying to Rome, I was browsing through the Swiss Airline magazine and noticed how much European cigarette ads differ from ours. The ones I saw, whether for individual packs or cartons, prominently warned...
The great Catholic monk and spiritual author Thomas Merton once wrote that “the principal problem in the spiritual life is the Promethean temptation.” He was referring to a story from Greek mythology, in which the hero...
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