It is springtime when my fancy usually turns to baseball. Though I have never been a St. Louis Cardinals fan, they have usually been a part of any baseball conversation, especially when we lived in St. Louis...
Now that Pope Francis has gone to the House of the Father, it is normal, logical and natural to ask the pivotal question: After Francis’ charismatic pontificate, in which direction will the Church move...
The conclave begins again in Rome where cardinals from around the world will come together to pray for the Holy Spirit’s descent and to choose the next Bishop of Rome. This process and the ancient rituals have...
The story is that Mark Zuckerberg’s parent company Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has replaced its controversial “fact checking program” with one similar to Elon Musk’s program X. Fact...
Kenny Rogers, in his song The Gambler, said I need to “know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run.” I’ve been running for years. I never felt quite secure again after the first layoff propelled...
I am a creature of habit, especially for eating my lunch almost every day. This is especially true when I find a tuna sandwich I really like. I believe I have been doing this regularly for over 70 years. There is a...
Now that we have kicked off the Jubilee of Hope, it is of the utmost importance not just to consider this year as a year of grace of the Lord but also to snatch the graces God gives us to sanctify us. One of the...
I recently read an essay in my diocesan newspaper about Joe Biden, still officially our president, and his recent basket of pardons, including several commutations of the death penalty. The US Conference of Catholic...
I wish to place before you an image of goalposts. And now, with this image embedded in your imagination, let us twist it and imagine these earthly goalposts as divine. Now regarding divine goalposts, I would wager that...
It is fairly common for an obituary to overstate the good qualities of the deceased person as a courtesy. In the case of a friend of mine who died a few weeks before Christmas 2024, no such courtesy was needed. Every...
Once upon a time there was a king who was very rich and powerful—but also very lonely and unhappy. He wanted a wife, but even though many ambitious noblewomen were eager to become his queen, he desired a marriage rooted...
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