My friend, Mother Madonna, the prioress of the Carmelites of the Carmel of Mary in Wahpeton, North Dakota emailed me asking for intentions so their sisters can pray for us; something they love doing.
My friend, Mother Madonna, the prioress of the Carmelites of the Carmel of Mary in Wahpeton, North Dakota emailed me asking for intentions so their sisters can pray for us; something they love doing.
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…
A mother looks into the face of death after being stabbed by a blue marlin and experiences God for the first time. While deep sea fishing in Panama waters there was a tug on Denise LeBlanc’s line. She had joined a group of friends for a weeklong fishing excursion in Central America. Each…
“This universe is at war,” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. During an interview with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the diocese of Springfield, Illinois for an upcoming article with the National Catholic Register about exorcism in the US, he referred to Christian author C.S. Lewis as calling the Earth enemy-occupied territory. Thus, he said, we must access…
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen mesmerized audiences. He was not afraid to speak the truth. More importantly, people were not afraid to hear it. His inspirational American television series, Life is Worth Living ran on the Dumont Television Network from February 12, 1952, to April 26, 1955, then on ABC until April 8, 1957. Archbishop…
Some people think they are more highly evolved than those mired in morality. Their politically correct rants propel us into a strange new world where life, death, and marriage are relative and sexual urges determine right and wrong. But rather than evolving into higher thinking, their pride pulls them into insanity. Proof that…
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…