Some things are meant to be shared.  Friendship with Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of those things.  I personally know three people who were friends with Mother Teresa and like a second-class relic, those second-class friendships leave me…

When my second grade teacher, an Irish nun named Sr. Anita, told us to leave a space for our guardian angels to sit next to us, I quickly complied.    I wanted my angel to be comfortable and close to…

The Book of Eli takes us to a painful place — a place where humanity loses its humanness.  We enter into in a gritty world devoid of either protection from the elements of nature or a government.  The ugly get uglier…

When my husband and I go to the movies, we usually comment to each other about each preview.   “Too intense,” I whispered when The Book of Eli crossed the screen, although he had already read my mind.  It did not…

Thirteen is a blessed number in our family.  Both my husband and my son Jacob were born on the 13th of May, which is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima’s first appearance in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 to three…

As the days draw nearer to our celebration of the birth of the Christ child, every Christian home is preparing a way for the Lord, right?  Yeah, right. I’m betting most are pounding the mall pavement loaded with packages, fretting over…

Finally, the Church has spoken authoritatively on Holy Love Ministries and its 83-acre site of Maranatha Spring and Shrine in Ohio. Despite all the usual Catholic trappings — chapel, statues, rosaries and religious bookstore, not to mention the throngs from…

Women are less happy than ever.  In a Time magazine special report, Nancy Gibbs writes: “Among the most confounding changes of all is the evidence, tracked by numerous surveys, that as women have gained more freedom, more education and more economic…

The altar server genuflected, snuffed out the candles, and returned to the sacristy after the funeral Mass of my father-in-law. Outside the church, small orange flags tied to each of the vehicles of the funeral procession crackled back and forth…