Category: Personal

One of my recent posts garnered the following comment: He’s going to believe what his church tells him to believe. Of course, he has every right to be Catholic, …

Just under two years ago, Msgr. Charles Pope wrote in part of Kirsten Powers’ conversion to evangelical Christianity: The other day I read a beautiful conversion story, a witness story …

I tend to beat myself up over my occasional bouts of ticked-offness, thinking that as a Christian, as a Catholic, I’m called to higher things.  I’ve often wished a …

The image represents America 2015 ™ pretty well wouldn’t you say? And yet, Nicole Demille is asking her brothers and sisters in Christ to buck that trend and instead, please, mind …

I have continued to struggle with the idea that there are so many people out there remaining silent, remaining indifferent, to the horror taking place at Planned Parenthood.  The …

Gospel Reading  Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time   John 6:51-58 Jesus said to the crowds:“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;whoever eats this bread will live …

I love conversion stories, particularly those that align in particular ways with my own reversion back to the faith after straying for over 40 years.   I’ve chronicled in …

I’ve recently, within the last month or so, decided to scale a mountain.  A very high mountain… for me.  And note I said scale, which means not just climb …

The Scriptures call the faithful to holiness: Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance but, as he who called you is holy, …

I ask the question because the graphic’s source is the Occupy Democrats organization, not a group I might usually associate myself with. I love what Mark Shea said about …