It has a reputation as a hard teaching: Ephesians, Chapter 5 — you know, that passage which many preachers dodge or avoid (either because they can’t figure out what it means, don’t agree with St. Paul, or are afraid of…

A weblog — or blog — is simply an online journal.  There has been a Catholic blog community for several years on the Internet.  Anyone with a blog can join, and anyone with access to the Internet can read them.  I have maintained a blog for over 3 years now myself. 

Every March the best Catholic blogs are recognized via the Catholic Blog Awards.  There are several categories of excellence.  Blogs are nominated by readers at the end of February and the voting takes place in early March — right now in fact.  (You can see who's been nominated and vote at www.catholicblogawards.com.)

This year there have been many news reports of defective goods like pet food, toothpaste, and fish coming out of China and into our markets.  Now China has threatened to try to hurt the US dollar if we try…

A Simple Desire

With these words Mattathias declares war on King Antiochus and the Gentiles. It is approximately 166BC. King Antiochus, one in a line of successors to Alexander the Great, has decreed that all under his rule must…

The Fundamentals

This observation comes from homeschooling our own children for the last seven years and from knowing other homeschooling families in our community. The reasons are simple: 1) the children take schooling more seriously if they know that…

For several weeks I had been reading The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp out loud to the family every night before bed. This is the story which inspired the Sound of Music.

We finished…

Lately there has been new interest in the Shroud of Turin as scientists have reported new findings as to the origin of the cloth and the origin of the image on the cloth. These reports call to mind my experience…

One Catholic tradition, which has virtually disappeared, is that of Christmas caroling: that is going house-to-house on Christmas Eve singing Christmas carols. I have not researched the origin of this tradition, but I don’t think it is too much of…