Pedro Cumba’s first brush with death came in 1995 when a rival drug gang robbed him. “They pushed me down the basement steps and made me lay face down on the floor,” Cumba said. “He went to shoot me in the back of the head but the gun didn’t go off.” Pedro…
Prayer is a lethal weapon. But in the hands of the enemy with sacrilegious intentions, it is useless. Although abortion workers continually say that prayer vigils outside abortion clinics are ineffective, they are attempting to use prayer to launch a counter-offensive. Unfortunately, they lack the knowledge of how such a weapon works.
“Hey Patti, I’m getting serious about praying for my family. I’m going to do a 40-day fast and daily rosary, do you want to join me?” My friend Shellie Rusch asked me this recently. She has six kids and we have a spiritual sisterhood in many ways. As a wife and mother of ten, I…
No beauty contests? That’s un-American! Well, actually it is. The ban on beauty contests is the goal of some French politicians and it’s not a total ban. Sadly. However, American’s take note. Please. Too many people don’t have a clue what true beauty is. Hint: it’s not the part that turns to dust.
When we’ve messed up, we should run to our mother. Scripture makes it clear. At the wedding at Cana, either the wine list or the guest list was miscalculated. Someone messed up. Mary told Jesus about it, and he saved the day by turning water into wine. But why would the Savior of the World…
Every Mother’s worst nightmare: “I could not just watch my children plunge to their deaths so I threw my body in front of the vehicle.” “Come on, Mom, let’s go,” my kids begged. It was a typical plea from kids painfully waiting for adults to finish up so they could get on with their own…
While many people believe forgetting an injury is part of forgiveness, Fr. Justin Waltz, pastor of St. Leo’s Church in Minot, ND, suggested just the opposite. In fact, he stated that forgetting is not even possible. “The only type of forgetting I have heard of is stuffing,” he said during a retreat presentation and added,…
As many of my clients strove to overcome their addictions to drugs or alcohol, I always suggested they tap into a powerful source for recovery–God. Sure, some people did it without him, but not most. God could pick them up where they were at and carry them through the pain and struggles all…
The scariest thing about the horror film, The Conjuring is that it’s based on a true story. It is about an evil presence doing hair-raising things. The story happened in 1971 and centers around the Perron family, a couple and their five daughters who were terrorized by a dark presence in their secluded…
There are some things that are uniquely Catholic. Going to confession is one of these. This sacramental gift that Jesus gave to his apostles on his first appearance after his resurrection, bonds us with our Catholic family. We share in the amazing grace and sometimes, things happen that only a Catholic can understand. …
l Walsh was 17 years old when the car he was driving hit a tree on Chester Pike in suburban Piladelphia on an icy December night in 1983. One doctor described his head injuries as the equivalent of dropping an egg on a cement sidewalk. Not only was his skull shattered, every bone…
Raising a family in a town rife with gang crime was a constant concern for my husband and me. Almost daily there were drive-by shootings and other assorted acts of violence. In 1994, our town, nestled in Central Washington (less than 10,000 population) made the national news for “more violent crime per…