My father had a friend, Bill Hersey, a self-taught memory expert who made a good living teaching others his memory aids and techniques. I st...

John Hathaway, whom I have featured on this blog of late, has given us another gift, a brief YouTube video -- God's Message to America ...

Does prayer accomplish anything? Does God hear and respond to prayer? The skeptics, of course, will answer with a loud, resounding, "No...

Once again I've encountered another archaeological tidbit of the kind that always intrigues me. For the past few weeks I've been rea...

John Hathaway, the son of our dear friends, Nancy and Joe Hathaway, has just published a wonderful article on InsideCatholic.com . John, who...

If you've been following the news out of Europe, you might have heard about the overwhelming vote by the French parliament in July to ba...

Communist North Korea is such a closed, totalitarian society that any news about daily life is rare and news about religion is virtually non...

The Vatican's presence on the worldwide web is quite extensive, but in addition to its main website ( www.vatican.va ), this presence ex...

I should have mentioned yesterday that one of the best discourses on time was offered by St. Augustine in his Confessions -- see Book XI ...

I try not to think about time very much because doing so gives me a headache. Many years ago, I took a course on cosmology in which the subj...

Yesterday I included a post about the Basilica of St. Mary Major and the celebration of the feast of Our Lady of the Snows. A few moments a...

Here's an interesting tidbit about the pope that I didn't know. Apparently before he was elected to the papacy the then-Cardinal Rat...

If you have Sirius satellite radio and listen to the Catholic Channel (#159), then you've probably heard "The Catholic Guy Show....

As anyone who occasionally reads this blog knows, I have an interest in both archaeology and art history, particularly as they relate to scr...

I continue to be amazed by the seemingly endless discoveries made by archaeologists, particularly those discoveries made in Rome where one w...

Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Snows, or the Dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (St. Mary Major), perhaps my ...

Some of you may remember my writing about Professor Ken Howell who was fired by the University of Illinois at Champaign for discussing Catho...

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Reading: Luke 12:13-21 Now that’s a Gospel passage that most investment counselors would prefer we not hear. Whenever I read this passag...

Recently I've been thinking a lot about Europe, and have concluded that it's really a very strange place. Now don't get me wrong...