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The Mediocrity of Apathy
I have been pondering what seems to be the tension between loving the sinner and following the law. Often times we call people Pharisees if they believe the law should be followed. But there is a...
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5 Reasons To Pray For Your Spouse
Prayer is one the deepest ways we show our love – to God, to our family, to the world. From childhood, many of us experience religious tradition through prayer in the Mass and in family prayer time....
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Happy 4th of July America and May God Continue to Bless us!
God was here right from the start. Our unalienable rights were given to us by God. “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have...
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The Blessing of Catholic Friends
Some of my most treasured friendships are with people who have significant differences in worldview from me in a variety of ways. I have friends from all sorts of different backgrounds. And I...
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Pray the Rosary – Especially This Year
In conversations with Catholics from around the country, one will encounter varying levels of devotion to Our Lady. Such devotions seem to run along a continuum. At one end of the continuum, we find a...
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Attending Mass with the Maronites
A road trip on a weekend and making sure you can still get to Mass can sometimes result in a very pleasant surprise and a holy experience. Quite recently Marjorie (my fiancée) and I were returning...
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From Reversion to Reversion: How a Deist Became a Theist, Part I
If anyone reading has ever driven down Interstate 70 from Wichita, Kansas to Denver, Colorado, then you will know how completely uninteresting the drive can be. The fields of Kansas are beautiful but...
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Some Thoughts on Going to Confession
It is something that Catholics are told they must do and are urged to do frequently from the very beginning of their faith formation. Sadly, today, many Catholics are not doing it all. It is the act...
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In Defense of The Right Type of Rigidity
The word “rigid” has become something of a pejorative term in the common parlance of some clerics and theologians in recent years. The Holy Father himself suggested that young Catholics who prefer the...
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A Catholic Holy Roller: The Story of the St. Anthony Chapel Car
Back in the early 1900s The St. Anthony of Padua chapel railroad car traversed North America bringing the Sacraments to folks in areas of the country where there were no Catholic Churches. It was...
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50 Years Later – The Influence of Benedictine Monks and Nuns
People recounted incidents from the good old days. Embellishments were, of course, a part of the tales, some of which have grown in size and dramatic impact over time. Nevertheless, old friends spent...
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Leave The Debate Over Amoris Laetitia To The Theologians
It’s almost enough to make a good Catholic want to become a hermit. The Amoris Laetitia (AL) controversy – the dubia, the Maltese Fiasco, and the German Bishops’ AL guidelines – have all made for some...
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Jesus Asked: Who Do You Say That I Am?
You’re probably familiar with the following Gospel passage from Saint Matthew (especially if you were at Mass on Sunday, August 27). It establishes Jesus’ Church here on earth with Peter as the first...
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Athletic Spirituality and Competition, Part I
I was privileged enough to play collegiate baseball for four years and professionally for two years before riding into the sunset of retirement where the real challenge began- figuring out how to...
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How One Family Approaches Mass With Young Children
Many Families, Many Approaches There are as many ways to manage a family with young children at Mass as there are families that attend. Many people will have something different that works for them....
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The Lesson on Self-Sacrifice I Learned From a Seed my Father Planted
I remember once, back in the early 1990’s, I was riding in the car with my father, who was driving me home from my job at the U.S. Postal Service. He was talking about how he never really had a...
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The Church: A Solid Rock To Stand On
You Are Peter Last month I had the honor of witnessing my mother and stepdad’s marriage in the Catholic Church. They were both raised Catholic but were never confirmed, and have been married civilly...
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Arguments Pro and Con: the Four Marks of the Church
After a fruitful breakfast conversation with a searching friend, I realized that almost all the questions that he asked were in some way connected to the four marks of the Church, its holiness,...
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Is Anyone Sola Scriptura?
Coffee Shop Calvinism I recently came across a group of men from the Reformed Church we left to become Catholic who were gathered at our local Starbucks. They were discussing theology, and didn’t...
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Raising Our Children in the Catholic Faith
What About Your Children? When we became Catholic, some of our friends were concerned for the sake of our children. Catholics didn’t have children’s programs – how were we going to raise our children...
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