Marching Orders

Farewell.  I knew when I started this writing project that it couldn’t last forever.  All good things end, and as I move on to more responsibility in my profession, this column must end.  For now, at least.
We face a… Read More

How Henry Fonda Saved My Friday

It had been a tough week.
Several discussions with fellow students about abortion, and it was clear that my arguments were unpersuasive.  The economic news is not improving and I watched helplessly while my retirement savings and my kids’ college… Read More

A Just Market

The economic news this past week has been impossible to ignore.  We are bombarded with politicians, economists, pundits, journalists, and “experts” who have, in the space of a few days, declared “capitalism is dead” and “we’re on the march to… Read More

What Language Did Jesus Speak?

This week we leave the Culture Wars behind and return to some basic apologetics…well, some interesting information about the Scriptures that informs our apologetics.
I once had a discussion with a person who insisted that Our Divine Lord spoke only… Read More

Hypocrisy?

One of the hardest parts of what Steven Curtis Chapman called “living [the Christian] life out loud” is striving for perfection while accepting that few ever reach that goal this side of Heaven.  Living the Gospel is hard, without grace… Read More

Temperance with Our Stuff

Moving as often as we have in the past ten years (five times since ’01 counting the move this summer), my family has had the unique opportunity to get rid of a lot of stuff.  We’ve been fairly successful at… Read More

Time for a Check-up

I have never been afraid of the dentist, not even as a little kid.
That’s not to say I always look forward to going to the dentist — it’s just that I had so much dental work done to me… Read More

Le Sacre Coeur de Jesus

I have been blessed to have served my last two Air Force assignments in French colonial country.  The cultures of southern Illinois and northwestern Louisiana retain a lot of their French-Catholic character, complete with Mardi Gras and those wonderful French… Read More

Faithful Citizenship

There are roughly 77 million people in the USA who identify themselves as Catholics.  The much vaunted “Catholic Vote” is very sought after with politicians trying to use the words of our bishops as implicit endorsements.  This is a twisting… Read More

Yes, You Have To Go… and Help Others to Get There, Too!

A recent poll released by Georgetown University reported that Catholics born after 1980 shared most of the values of those born before 1960… similar devotion to the saints and observance of the liturgical seasons were cited as specific examples. Curiously, though, the poll revealed those same younger Catholics reported they didn’t believe they had to attend Holy Mass on Sunday.

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