Feeling alone. We all have felt it. The sense that no one cares or needs you. Though one might be surrounded by dozens of people,
My husband, Michael, and I will have been married for 39 years on Sept. 1, 2017. After a difficult life, we are happy and still in love.
The Young Pope, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is premised on what is apparently a radical idea: that popes might experience spiritual growth even
The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary conclude with two events, the Assumption of Mary into heaven, and her Coronation as Queen of all Creation (meaning
To be sure, morally or otherwise, no one is good in the sense of perfect. We are usually only good in a relative sense. We
Every society, every culture has a tradition of a scapegoat: a person or group of people to blame and punish for the sins of that
A few years back I was visiting a friend when a man in a sparkling white uniform walked out of my friend’s home. When my
Is a prayer like this Okay? Hanoi Jane Excepted, Ora Pro Nobis My good friend, Captain Ronald Bliss (may he rest in peace now), on
“This deadly cancer of anger… makes us unlike ourselves, makes us like timber wolves or furies from Hell, drives us forth headlong upon the points
I did not grow up wearing a chapel veil, but I remember hearing the stories from my mother about being required to wear one to
Oh, the Aggravations We Face! Do you know someone whose purpose in life seems to be to aggravate you? You know what I mean, right?
I disagree with those who describe Our Lord’s Passion experience as humiliating, because I believe that they are merely projecting their perception of that situation
While recently considering the many types of prayer we can use when talking to God, I recalled a conversation I had last fall with a
As Lent approaches, we are reminded that this season offers us a new beginning. Pope Francis describes Lent as a “journey of spiritual renewal in
Pride is something most of us understand to a certain extent. Or, at the very least, we think we know what it looks like when
I asked for it. I really did. I knew that I would never find peace until I got down on my knees and begged for
This is the story of my ascent out of brokenness and into the arms of mercy. Through suffering, God tore down the walls of what
. Remember the commercial where a young woman says ‘I read it on the web so it must be true!’ By now, hopefully, people are
A World-Wide Celebration On December 8, 2015, Pope Francis declared the current liturgical year to be a celebration of God’s mercy by proclaiming it as “The
I Am Not More Holy than You Many people these days look at women who choose to practice the devotion of veiling as ‘holier than thou’ –
Pope Francis “tweeted” the following statement about prayer a couple years ago: “The one who listens attentively to the word of God and truly prays
One Saturday morning about a year and a half ago I attended training to volunteer at the local county jail. During the training, the deputy