One Marriage, the State and God
There have been perhaps a gazillion or two marriages since God ordained the Sacrament, as well as time and space and everything else He created. However, I could be
There have been perhaps a gazillion or two marriages since God ordained the Sacrament, as well as time and space and everything else He created. However, I could be
The reason that a person would want to walk down the middle of a city street in one of the two largest U.S. marches, either
Remember when you saw a group gathered together on the school playground that surrounded a kid. You rushed over to them because it looked like
I am getting a pain in my sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia over the constant barrage of interpretations of Pope Francis’ speeches and impromptu interviews saying that he is
I know this is old news now, but so is the resurrection of Jesus. The Extraordinary Synod on the Family that ended on October 19,
“Riding one day in the plains below Assisi, he met a leper whose loathsome sores filled Francis with horror. Overcoming his revulsion, he leapt from
They bowed their heads to say grace, then started to eat a rare breakfast together when the cell phone rang. The man and his two-and-a-half
In yesterday’s column (Part I), I told you about a Franciscan Friar, Brother Anthony Pham Dinh Tuyen OFM Conv, beginnings and escape from Vietnam as a young
Imagine finding yourself in a hostile land. It has a history of being violently hostile to everything Christian – person and property. What do you do
We have seen them in our imagination when we first hear of a pregnancy. We may see them in an ultrasound and marvel as they show
The translation into English of the common name of this politicial/religious group in Nigeria has resulted in several iterations. “The People of the Book (Christians)
As the Extraordinary Form of the Mass progressed the priest started to intone the Gospel. He spoke in Latin, reading from the Gospel situated on
A while back I was, as was my habit, reading a popular blog and the comments about the current post there. The usual religious skeptics
Another year, the 10th to be exact, just this last Saturday on a beautiful warm California day, the weather was great, the message was the
What is the American equivalent of what the Russian’s called a Gulag? A familiar word to Americans, because of our cold war relations with the
If you are like me, the first time you heard that the laity could be members of a religious order, what went through your
Imagine this scenario: You are a young girl. You are full of love for others from the tiniest and most defenseless to their mothers who
In this modern era, all faithfully Christian people run up against a concept that is often hard to overcome and not always a conscious part
One of my favorite clichés to refer to when talking about atheism has been that human cliché Richard Dawkins. Nobody just reads his books, we
In our rush-to-be-fed-and-entertained modern life (so we will feel pleasure as we bloat) how often are you going to read a story or be shown
I do have to admit that I am extremely jealous of Joseph Bottum. He was actually paid by the Luce Foundation to write a very
I was just standing there looking into the foyer of the Cathedral to see if the door opened as a man pulled the handle. It