As ordained permanent deacons we may preach only if we receive the faculty to do so from our bishop. And then, once we're assigned to a ...

Sometimes the contrast is difficult to bear. Here I am, a deacon assigned to a large, growing parish in a beautiful, Florida retirement comm...

In a recent post, Tree Hugging , I mentioned World War One during a discussion of the poet, Joyce Kilmer, who died in combat during that wa...

Sgt Joyce Kilmer (1918) A month or so ago, while browsing at a used book store, I came across a two-volume edition of Joyce Kilmer's...

Alan Keyes A few years ago a friend, who happens to be solidly fused to the far left, jokingly (I think) accused me of being a racist b...

Jeff Sweitzer, a science policy advisor in Bill Clinton's administration, has come happily unglued since NASA reported the discovery of ...

A few days ago, early, before the Florida sun burned too hot, Maddie and I took our usual morning walk. Maddie is our little Bichon Frise (t...

On Monday of this week Brit Hume, Senior Political Analyst for Fox News, accurately described the abortion industry and our nation's pat...

Yesterday's Daily Signal story on corporate supporters of Planned Parenthood apparently struck a nerve. A number of these corporations ...

Planned Parenthood murders more unborn babies in the U.S. than any other "abortion provider". They receive hundreds of millions fr...