We're up in Massachusetts now, visiting the kids and grandkids , and not at all appreciative of the colder weather. The change in temper...

As a deacon, one of the ministries in which I'm actively involved is the Wildwood Soup Kitchen, located, appropriately enough, in Wildwo...

No matter how I try to focus on other issues, I keep coming back to politics and the upcoming election. I suppose I should actually say curr...

Persecution of Indian Christians. Perhaps one of the most under-reported news stories involves what is happening to Christians, and particul...

If you have turned on a television or a radio lately, you certainly know we're in the middle of political prime time. Maybe I've jus...

I haven't posted much of late simply because I've been so busy. But even though I haven't written anything, I have pondered a fe...

OK, I've placed almost 100 of the photos I took while in Rome on flickr.com. If you want to view them, click here . Then, click on ...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I actually took about 1,200 photos when we were in Rome. This, of course, wouldn't have happened ten ...

The above is a strange title but it's just the outcome of a some equally strange thoughts that bubbled up in my brain earlier today as I...

Although we've been home for several days, it's taken us that long to fully recover from the jet lag and the fact that we really too...

As you can all attest, I haven't been a very reliable a blogger on this trip. We have, though, been busy and this touristy stuff is a fu...

Monday was such a busy day that I simply had no time to post anything. We also returned to the hotel so tired that even the rock-hard bed wa...

Today began with a quick breakfast at the hotel followed by a brisk walk to St. Peters for 9 a.m. Mass. Among the sad commentaries on modern...

Diane and I were apparently more tired than we thought. We went to bed at 11 last night and awoke 11 hours later at 10 this morning. The onl...

We made it to Rome. It seemed to take forever since we flew first from Orlando to London (Gatwick) and then spent six not so interesting hou...

This morning, while browsing an online news site from Massachusetts, I came across an article about a woman who claims to have been ordained...

When I awoke early this morning and turned on the news to check the latest hurricane update, I caught the tail end of a news story about how...

It's been over a week since I posted anything on the blog, and it will likely be another week before I do so again. With four little gra...

If Florida has learned one thing these past few days, it's that you can have too much rain, even after a draught. Maybe another lesson i...

Last week, at his general audience at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict focused on two 20th Century martyrs, St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)...