I believe in Yesterday’s Christmas Maybe I’m just nostalgic. Maybe I’m just getting older. I don’t think so (nostalgic, I mean). But I believe in yesterday’s Christmas. In a spiritual sense Christmas over the last […]
Thousands of Catholics gathered at over 270 locations on the Feast of Christ the King to pray the Rosary, seeking to stem the tide of […]
The oft-criticized explorer and discoverer was a flawed man of his age who should be honored in our times for his heroic deeds. […]
I read an article recently on the dangers of obesity in children and how this threat is growing not just in American culture but throughout all first world nations. I know—and you do, too—this is […]
At approximately the same moment my mother entered into a movie house, paying 14 cents, in Brewerytown, in North Philadelphia, to see a show and view news reels depicting a demented socialist/fascist raising a stiff […]
In some faith-filled, obscure, and contented corner of the world called Knoxville, Iowa, a remarkable thing happened. And this is vital to our understanding and appreciation of Veterans Day and last Tuesday’s presidential election. But, […]
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” So wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran, German pastor, […]
The TV sitcom Father Knows Best, which ran from 1954 to 1960, starred the lovable Robert Young (later everybody’s favorite TV family practitioner, Dr. Marcus Welby) and the beautiful Jane Wyatt, as the ideal couple […]
Let me put this right out there from the get go. I am not a theologian. I’m a baseball fan. Someone once asked me if I was a religious fanatic (apparently, today, it’s the definition […]
To my mind, there are three great novels published during the last century-and-a-half depicting the Passion of Christ: Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), Lloyd C. Douglas’ The Robe (1942), and Louis […]
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