Bring the referees out to blow the whistles!  Have them throw a flag on the play and call a penalty for illegal teaching!  For Heaven’s sake will someone please do something to stop this game we’re losing and turn it…

At about the age of 12, riding my bicycle home from swim practice on a hot summer day, a car ran a stop sign and plowed smack into my bike.  My body took flight, crashing onto the concrete road.  The…

Modern man is afflicted with a deadly disease.  This disease most often strikes not at the body, but at the soul.  This disease knows no boundaries.  It has reached epidemic proportions afflicting the young and old just as oft as…

The Marketing manager is a model of matter-of-fact efficiency, as one by one, she hands me a plethora of papers to sign, providing me with a snapshot summary of what each paper contains.
Living will?
I slowly shake my head…

Have you ever attended a Mass where people who seemed unaware of what the Mass was about walked up to receive Communion?  A while ago my husband Tom and I attended a Mass for a wedding like that.  One couldn’t help…

I had a bad habit. When birthdays came around, and it was time to whip up a cake, I would hit the supermarket and grab the package of white icing that would be waiting there for me. It looked good…

A group of young girls I know of is knitting and crocheting crafts, scarves and sweaters to sell in order to fund high school students who are planning missionary work in South America.  Their group is called “Crafts for Christ,”…

When parents pull their children from public schools, in order to homeschool them, they are sending a message to authorities.  The message is this:  “Our family is so unhappy with the job you are doing with our child (our most…

Parents are responsible for the spiritual, emotional, physical and social growth of children.  It is the responsibility and right of parents to educate their children, most especially in the faith.  This right to educate our children is a God-given, intrinsic…

The older I get the more aware I become of the blessings I have failed to count.  One of these blessings is having been raised in a time when the name you gave to something had a certain degree of depth…