Fear, Grief, and the Imperative of Forgiveness

Yesterday’s article in this space was Mark Shea’s examination of the beatitude “Blessed are the Merciful.”  If you have not been reading all of Mark’s meditations on these pithy words to live by from Life Itself, you are really missing… Read More

Mexico, Mexicans, and Us

This week Mexicans in the United States celebrate Cinco de Mayo.  While this is a localized (not national) holiday in Mexico, in this country it has become a national celebration of Mexican, and even wider Hispanic, culture.  For non-Hispanic Americans… Read More

What Went Wrong for The Perfect Game

I took three of my grandchildren to see The Perfect Game yesterday.  My daughter is a manager at a mall theater and she had told me that the movie opened Friday and no one went to see it. I knew… Read More

Can It Be?

Most of you reading this have heard all your lives that Jesus died for you and that Jesus is God the Son –- true God from true God. It has never dawned on you, because it was always the light that you lived in. But it dawned on me.

News Flash: The Pope and the New York Times are Fallible

Samuel Butler once remarked that, “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” The New York Times has been determined to improve upon this method by combining insufficient premises with false ones in order to draw —… Read More

Yes to Life Still Works

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation.
For many of us this has been a very retrospective and introspective week.  The cause of life — the fight to make ours a country that values the unborn, the aged, the infirm… Read More

Lots to Celebrate This Easter

Life!  That is what we celebrate at Easter. Eternal life made possible for us by Christ’s resurrection and the abundant life we have even now following and loving Him.
The Catholic life sees no end to celebration. As the years… Read More

Putting the Vision Back in Supervision

It’s been about year since the shocking statistics on teen sex were all over the news.  But after the wailing and gnashing, the to-hell-in-a-hand basket moaning, and the calls from this sector for more sex education while another sector rails… Read More

Lent and the Catholic Business Professional

If you’re like me, you went from "I can’t believe Christmas is already here" to "I can’t believe it is almost Lent" in the blink of an eye. Where does the time go? Randy Hain, Associate Editor of The Integrated… Read More

Right Pulls the Wrong Race Card on Reid

Want a bone to gnaw on? Try this one: Imagine for a minute that a public conservative or conservative Republican politician had commented, oh, say about 2 years ago to the effect that then candidate Barack Obama was gaining traction… Read More

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