Walking through the woods in late April, with my eyes strained to spot spring mushrooms, I was...
My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the...
When we undergo trials, we fight the battle of fear. Fear of the current situation, fear of the future, fear of what will happen to us, our loved ones, our family, marriage, relationships, job, children, friends and...
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell Congratulations to all of the 2023 high school graduates! For those of you who are entrepreneurs or going to work...
How did we get here, a Southie kingpin asks one of his minions in Boston during the bussing and school boycott in the summer of 1974. This quote from a character in Dennis Lehane’s latest book, Small Mercies, has no...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#954) describes the three states of the Church: “When the Lord comes in glory, and all his angels with him, death will be no more, and all things will be subject to him. But at the...
The recent liturgical memorial of St Clare was a great blessing for me. Besides the holy life this great follower of St Francis’ ideal lived, an ideal which still inspires and appeals to us today after eight centuries...
The first message we glean from our first reading (Isaiah 22:19-23) and Gospel passage (Matthew 16:13-20) on this 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time is about solidity. It is conveyed by the image of a peg holding things...
In a recent essay, I noted that critical thinking is a more reliable guide to behavior than emotion, provided it is controlled and directed toward truth. I added that the aim of critical thinking should not just be to...
Many Protestants who convert to Catholicism first have to overcome mistaken beliefs or ideas that made them uncomfortable—and often these involve the Blessed Virgin Mary. One Evangelical named Jonathan struggled with...
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