Jim Caviezel on Following Jesus
“Everyone wants resurrection but no one wants suffering.” Those are the words of actor Jim Caviezel, best known for portraying Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.
Due Process for a Tree
The world is a safer place for one tall, skinny, pine tree, thanks to a contingent of tree lovers that laughed in the face of logic. A spindly pine tree standing in isolation in a postage stamp backyard is now an official landmark in San Francisco.
We Need to Keep Talking About Bathrooms
Until we get this cleared up, we need to keep talking about bathrooms. There’s a lot we’ve had taken away from us in recent years. I recently opined at the National Catholic Register that we often aren’t even allowed to breath an opinion these days. I don’t mean to turn this issue religious because it’s…
Exorcists Explain What is Behind Haunted Houses
Fearful that her deceased ex-husband was haunting her, a woman went to see Fr. Vincent Lampert, the exorcist for the diocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. Ever since her ex-husband’s death, there were strange goings-on in his old favorite room. The woman lived alone so when she found furniture moved around, there was…
Prayers for Life Are Making a Difference
Are you tired of hearing about all the evil in the world? What can most of us do beyond feel sad and say some prayers? We may feel tapped out at times, but our faith gives us the power and incentive to overcome spiritual paralysis. Consider, for instance, the effect prayer has had against…
Psychics Point Away from Jesus
When Theresa Caput, star of the reality show Long Island Medium came to the Bismarck, North Dakota’s Events Center recently, there was a small group of people across the street praying against her work. It’s unlikely that she knew we were there. Neither did the many hundreds who walked past us on their way to…
St. Stanislaus, Killed for Speaking the Truth
I write this on April 11, the Feast of St. Stanislaus. His name always reminds me of a humorous incident. I was working as a dental assistant while still in high for a father and son team. One afternoon, the elder dentist called me into the room with a young patient. “Go ahead,” he said…
Church Doesn’t Use “Signals” to Change Teachings
You knew it and I knew it. Whatever the Pope would have said in his latest document on the family, Amoris Laetitia, the secular media was going to misinterpret it. Not to lump all media together, and not to pick on the New York Times, but I’m going to use them as an example. My…
It’s a Terrible Time to be Protestant
Thank you, God, for my Catholic faith! Before I go further, let me say that I know some amazing, inspirational non-Catholic Christians. However, as a head-over-heels-in-love kind of Catholic, I look around, sometimes in horror and sadness at some of the congregations outside of the Church. They are missing out on so much at a…
Get the Hierarchy Right to Avoid Insanity
How many of the two-dozen animal rights activists who gathered in Downtown Ann Arbor to mourn deer lives are prolife? I bet I could not count them on one finger. I am all for photosynthesis, but it’s not a sin to kill a fatted calf. Meat is not even my favorite food choice–smoothies, salads, and corn…
Fr. Jerzy an Intercessor for Religious Freedom
Father Jerzy Popieluszko died for human rights and religious freedom in Poland on October 9, 1984. He did not need to do it. There was a path to freedom in the United States offered to him, but he chose death rather than be silenced by a government that hated the truth. Fr. Jerzy is a…
How to Love People You Can’t Stand
Who are the people with whom you don’t want to breathe the same air? On my list are the ferocious abortion advocates that drip hatred at the prolife movement. They tempt me to wish for a loophole on the Christian obligation to love everyone. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I…