I grew up in the fifties and the early sixties. It was actually quite a wonderful time to come of age, and I've always felt a bit sorry ...

Late yesterday morning, at our parish in Wildwood, Florida, we celebrated a special Mass focused on the healing of body, mind and spirit. Ou...

The Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend in Indiana has developed an iPhone and Android app called "My Year of Faith" to help Catholic...

A few days ago I offered my personal reflection on the meaning of the recent elections. In doing so I made no specific predictions, other th...

The American people have spoken and, as my late brother once cynically remarked, "You'll never go broke underestimating the intelli...

"As Catholics we are called to be engaged in the public discourse, to be involved in the political process, and to exercise our obligat...

Readings: Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126:1-6; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 A few weeks ago, as we studied John’s Gospel in one of our parish Bible Study...

On Tuesday our nation is faced with a choice. Choose religious freedom. Choose life. Vote as an informed and faithful Catholic. And pray fo...

After posting the story earlier today about the French Trappist monks who sacrificed their lives in Algeria in 1996, I thought it might be u...

Yesterday Dear Diane and I went to the movies, something we don't do very often. But it was out 44th anniversary, so movies and dinner s...

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Most news stories today are hardly news. By this I mean that they really don't surprise, but instead only confirm what one already knows...

Have you noticed a growing polarization in almost every area of human conduct? For example, politics as the art of compromise seems a reli...

Readings: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-17; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30 One hot summer day in 1941, in the infamous death camp of Auschwitz, ten p...

One of the more interesting, if not particularly important, Roman archaeological mysteries has been the identification of the exact spot whe...

Unless you've spent the last few months on one of Jupiter's moons, you've at least heard of the now notorious Obama-care mandat...