Before proceeding, let me clarify the purpose of this reflection. Daycare in a time of genuine...
Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
One of the most fundamental and ancient moral precepts is Do Good and Avoid Evil. It was expressed (in different words) in the Hippocratic Oath between the fifth and third centuries before Christ. More than a...
In a recent Sunday Gospel reading, Jesus reminded us that the gate into heaven is a narrow one. (Luke 13) The reading made me uncomfortable. The Church tells us that sin requires an element of knowing that we are doing...
“We must teach more by example than by word.”- St. Mary MacKillop This past July, Australian life was full of headlines trumpeting the agreement on the equal dignity of men and women in the local Catholic Church, and...
There’s an apocryphal quote often misattributed to Ben Franklin that goes something like this: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” While we’re not...
With cause I return to the scurrilously inflected Saint Cajetan of Thiene/Sister Laura Mignani allusion in Gabriel García Márquez’s virulently anti-Catholic, 1994 novel Of Love and Other...
Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord. All praise is yours, all glory, all honor and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. All praise be yours, my...
This sixth essay will explore the Gift of Knowledge. This knowledge is not about how many degrees one has, how many facts one knows, or the prestige of one’s career. This Knowledge is about that which pertains to our...
About 850 years ago there was an important Englishman named Thomas Beckett, who was the Chancellor, or prime minister, of England. This made him the most important man in the country, except for the king himself. Thomas...
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