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...
If we were to divide prayer into its two simplest forms, there are two kinds of prayer, vocal prayer and mental prayer. Vocal prayer is spoken prayer using set words; walk into a Catholic church during Mass or devotions...
The start of 2022 has been strange indeed, not only for Europe, but for the entire world, not least of all for the United States. In January and early February a serious affliction was growing much worse in the U.S. and...
The obvious question must be: “Why would Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, be led by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil in the desert for forty days?” The answer must be that Jesus is our Leader on the way to...
At the core of the human person is the most essential duty, the duty to worship God and live according to His commands. On the day that we die, it is not to any government that we will answer, nor to any person, not...
Once again in my life, the score is the Devil 2 and Greg 0 going into the third period. The first goal in the Devil’s pending hat trick was my deciding not to donate to my diocese’s annual drive because of several...
The choices before us are always only two: with God, with Jesus or with the world, with human flesh (i.e., with meager human resources unaided by God’s grace). We are either blessed or cursed, believers or unbelievers...
Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception, and its larger teaching on marriage, were based on St. Augustine of Hippo’s experience with Manichaeism. In the 1960s, there was cause for hope that...
A businessman in New York City, wanting to avoid a $50 service charge, decided to change a 7 ft. fluorescent light bulb in the office ceiling himself. He brought in a new bulb and successfully installed it, but then had...
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