Note: the first part of this post was written over a week ago. Since then President Biden and the Taliban have confirmed that we will indeed...

Last week on the Marian Solemnity of the Assumption, Pope Francis addressed the faithful:  "I join in the unanimous concern over the ne...

Every so often I turn to  AsiaNews.it  to get a different view of world events. It’s a Catholic website published in Italy in Italian, Engli...

Understand up front that I am all for getting vaccinated against COVID. Diane and I received our two Moderna shots back in February and Marc...

Thanks to omnipresent cellphone videos, we can all experience the trauma faced by those Afghans and American citizens trying to make their w...

It’s hard to believe a president could do so much in so short a time to set our nation on a course to disaster. If you think I’m just expres...

A parishioner sent me a link to one of my own posts, written 13 years ago, telling me how prophetic it was. I disagreed strongly. It was not...

There is so much wrong with the implementation of President Biden’s "plan" for the exit of our military forces from Afghanistan th...

Following the lead of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, earlier this year President Biden stated that the United States must, in his...

I happened to catch an article today by Christian Datoc. It was published online Friday in the Washington Examiner and was titled, “ Three A...

It’s about noon on Sunday and the reports out of Kabul are far less than optimistic. And yet I just heard a D.C. policy wonk, a former State...

On 30 April 1975 I was a Navy lieutenant, a helicopter pilot, who was then repaying the Navy for my graduate degree by teaching computer sci...

Reading the news these days has become like a visit to one of those Ripley’s Believe it or Not  “museums” where one is confronted by the out...

I keep encountering Catholics, truly an alarming number of them, who voted for President Biden last year, and have consistently voted for p...

Note: I preached this homily a few weeks ago, but actually just winged it from a few scribbled notes. Several people asked if I could put it...

If you’ve ever been to London, you might have taken the time to visit the Speakers’ Corner at the northeast corner of Hyde Park, not far fro...

So often we hear people, particularly religious people, speak of our nation as a "Christian Society." Of course, I've never he...