All those "scholars" who for years have dismissed the Old Testament's historicity have been getting hammered again and again a...

OK, we're well into the summer and any summer reading list should probably have been posted back in May. My only excuse is that I live i...

In case you missed it, President Obama made some interesting comments during his Town Meeting last week. One, in particular, struck me since...

The recent troubles that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has brought on himself have also given us a glimpse into the religious group t...

Just some interesting news I spotted while browsing the web this morning... Pope Benedict's third encyclical to be released on July 7. T...

"Being human is wicked cool!" This memorable phrase was uttered nearly 20 years ago by a young man in a confirmation class I was l...

Here I am again, rising early, long before 6 a.m. and just thinking thoughts as they arrive, most unbidden. I do not have a particularly wel...

My, oh, my. Our new president seems to have gone over the edge. And I'm tired of giving him a pass. He's been president for almost s...

Our bishops have come out with a clarification of their teaching on our religious relationship with the Jewish people. ( See the US Bishops...

I woke up early this morning. Of course, there's nothing new about that; I wake up early every morning these days. Fortunately my aging ...

I was not a fan. Before this week you could have tortured me and I still couldn't have named a single Michael Jackson song. OK, maybe th...

Although I didn't intend to mention this particular incident on the blog, today I thought it might be worth sharing. And perhaps someone...

As you might know, I was involved with NASA some years ago (OK, many, many years ago) during the Apollo program as a Navy helicopter pilot. ...

I just read that Pope Benedict XVI has named Fr. Augustine DiNoia as Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of ...

Obviously I'm not a bishop, so I don't have to make the hard decisions facing our bishops today. And I realize too that many bishops...

Just a few thoughts that crawled (all my thoughts crawl these days) through my mind this afternoon as I listened to some auto company execut...

I was assigned to assist at one of our vigil Masses yesterday, and so find myself in the unusual position of being able to do virtually noth...

I was browsing a few favorite websites when I came across a link to a speech Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave a few weeks ago at the u...

Well, President Obama certainly has his hands full. Here he is trying to remake American society in his own image and then those pesky North...

Apparently events in Mexico are continuing to spiral out of control. Mexico is experiencing what can only be described as localized anarchy ...