Malice fills today’s world. This is partly because organizations which families relied upon in past generations to foster life skills in the youth no longer
I never tire of looking at the wonderful images of God’s creation, which He gifted Michelangelo to be able to paint on that magnificent Sistine
Dr. Ricardo Castañon Gomez is not well-known to many Catholics. But he should be. Atheist Richard Dawkins has apparently never heard of Dr. Ricardo Castañon
If you know a young person who is a high school junior or senior you might want to pass this advice on to him or
Is there something wrong with our religious education programs; has doctrine been buried under euphemisms and “feel good’ concepts? Forty years ago, when I taught
The Lord has come to me many times to say: Tell my people how much I love them. Tell my people that they are not
A few years ago I heard about a book from a friend titled Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul. Though I
Before I had kids, I would look at the children I knew and the students I taught and would comment about how they were badly
As I was preparing to write this review of Dr. Peter Kwasniewski’s latest book, Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the
Twenty years ago I was happy to enroll my 6-year-old son in Cub Scouts. No organization held a higher image in terms of instilling values
The American Enterprise Institute recently released a study on the historic ebb and flow of religion in the United States which demonstrated, surprisingly, that the
I have been called many things in my life: a good soldier, a solid worker, a model employee, and even a good husband. Those things
Venerable Patrick Peyton (1909-92), known as the “Rosary Priest” because of the many large rosary rallies he led throughout the world, popularized the phrase “The
My wife likes to tell the story of the old spinster woman who died and went to heaven to the kids in the eighth grade
Saint Rocco School, an urban Catholic grade school and childcare center in Cleveland, Ohio, needed a principal in mid-November last year when the current principal
Sister Clare is neither a saint nor have any initial beatification steps been taken that I know of, but she represents the potential saint within
“Daddy, what’s an abortion?” my seven year old son asked me one day. “An abortion is when a mother kills the child she is carrying
My daughter is left-handed, as are her two children. My brother is a lefty as well, and a few cousins are southpaws. They all inherited
With the Youth Synod recently ended, there’s quite a lot of talk around Catholic circles on how to bring young people into the Church. Or
The Church and its pastors should courageously propose the Christian ideal corresponding to Catholic moral doctrine and not water it down. —Cdl. Robert Sarah When
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere
With my first child, I rigorously studied infant sleep schedules and development books and felt like I was giving my baby everything she needed. With