On most days, Jim Campagna’s starts the day driving himself tovmorning Mass at either Cathedral of the Holy Spirit or St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Bismarck, North Dakota where he is a parishioner. Not bad for someone who will turn 100 on December 21 this year. “I put God first in my life.” he said…
March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, is a religious holiday that has spread into the popular culture – just like the Catholic Irish people have spread throughout our population. More than one in ten Americans are Irish. Regardless of who your ancestors are, the saints are patrons to us all – related through the One…
Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow at the National Review Institute, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living. She contributed ways she lives her faith daily for Holy Hacks: Everyday Ways to Live Your Faith and Get to Heaven.
The divisiveness in our culture is contaminating families. Exorcists point to the devil as dividing and oppressing us. I am shocked at some of what I am seeing in families. There’s always been evil forces at work since Adam and Eve, but the anti-Christian spirit certainly gained a foothold through the notorious Madalyn Murray O’Hair who forced…
I had forgotten to pray prior to practice with my co-hosts for our upcoming TV talk show, “Ladies of Another View” on BEK News. It was something we had done a few times and everyone happily agreed that it was a good idea. Then, I let it slip away.
This past week knocked me down in a way I don’t usually succumb. It’s not just our country, it’s our Church too for a number of reasons. I hunkered down and prayed more. I focused on the fact that spiritual things are most important and they are all that is going to matter in…
The threat against religious liberty that Joe Biden brings to his run for the Whitehouse was addressed by the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen in 1947 in his book, Characters of the Passion. For all the accusations that Christian and Catholic teaching is dangerous to our free society, Sheen pointed out that the reality is quite…
God is behind every miracle and every answer to prayer, but he made us a family that interacts and can help each other. When Jesus walked the earth, he taught us to pray for one another. That desire does not end when someone dies.
Politics and science are often at odds, according to Mike Maguire, an atmospheric scientist for 38 years and occasional guest as the “Catholic Meteorologist” on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show. He writes here as a guest blogger, expressing his perspective that politics has been trying to redefine science in the areas of climate and life.
A friend of mine from Florida came across this obituary for Karen Dent and shared it with me. It is beautiful. I thought you would enjoy it too.Then, please join me in saying a prayer for Karen, although judging by the obituary, I suspect she is already in Heaven.
Easter was very different this year. And yet, Jesus Christ is risen! Alleluia! Before going to bed, I was scanning Facebook and came across a post about this year’s Easter by our daughter, Teresa. I found it touching and I thought that you would too.
WA Post Photo If you watched the World Series, perhaps “Baby Shark” became stuck in your head thanks to Gerardo Parra. He was the high energy outfielder for the winning team, the Washington Nationals. A big part of Parra’s acclaim had to do with his walk-up song “Baby Shark” that threw the stadium into an “infectious” pep…