Home, sweet home. Yes, we're back home again and, believe me, there is nothing as sweet as returning to the comfortable surroundings of ...

Our trip to the moral wilderness that is Massachusetts continues. Whenever I return to New England, if only for a short visit, I express my ...

I was recently introduced to a new (to me) Catholic website that some folks might find interesting. It's very comprehensive with lots of...

No time for anything deep or controversial today. In a little while I have to drive wife, daughter and two grandsons to the mall in Salem, N...

Throughout my almost 65 years I've entertained doubts about many different things, but one truth I have never doubted is the existence o...

The following are a few of my favorite quotes, words of wisdom that seem to be particularly relevant today. I've repeated a few by memor...

The pro-abortion crowd are probably the most obvious of the public liars we encounter daily in the media. The latest contributor is Secretar...

Some people just don't get it, do they? Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, a judge in the Palestinian Authority and a perennial rabble-rouser whose ...

It's been a busy weekend. As I mentioned in my previous post, on Saturday Diane and I drove to Larchmont, NY (a 499-mile round trip from...

Today Diane and I will drive 240 miles from Cape Cod to Larchmont, NY where we will enjoy a midday meal with a bunch of men who attended gra...

Bishop Thomas Wenski, Bishop of the diocese of Orlando (and my bishop), has responded to the University of Notre Dame's decision to hono...

Some weeks ago I briefly addressed the ongoing debate about the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite President Obama as a comme...

Well, once again I missed it. Every 28 years, according to Talmudic tradition, the sun returns to the exact position it occupied when the ea...

I've been away...and still am, so the blog has suffered. Diane and I left Florida last Monday and drove first to a tiny wide-spot-in-the...

By now anyone with a TV, PC or radio has probably heard or heard of Susan Boyle, the 40-something Scottish singing sensation who surprised t...

The following is my homily for the Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday). Reading: John 20:19-31 ____________________ What a wonderf...

An interesting question. Am I a terrorist? I admit it's a question that had never before occurred to me. But with the release of the Dep...

As one who has studied and always enjoyed astronomy, I occasionally drop by some of the NASA and other related websites. This image (below) ...

One of the odd and unexpected things I've discovered about aging: I don't seem to need as much sleep as I once did and so I now wake...

Whenever the weirdness of the world and the stupidity (Is that too harsh?) of humanity drive me to consider a self-imposed exile to the wild...