I was just recovering from the healthcare fiasco when the media turned on the Pope.  I think the Catholic Church is in for some real rocky times. That’s probably not much of a prophecy considering the headlines we read every morning. …

When my wife and I got married, I knew she didn’t know how to cook.  She told me she could boil eggs, but that was about it.  I didn’t really give it much thought.  I was not focused on her…

Often, when I taught a college class, I would tell the students that, given the realities of their lives, there was nowhere they would rather be at that moment than right where they were, in my class. Then I…

It seems Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has done it again. Her comments about abortion and her Catholic faith are always sure to garner media attention. Her year end interview with Newsweek ’s Eleanor Clift was no exception. Proclaiming…

Many years ago I was listening to a discussion about incarceration. One person was arguing that we put people in prison as a form of punishment. The other person was arguing that prison is meant for rehabilitation. I listened for…

One day in church I was listening to the story of the widow of Nain.  She was the widow who was grieving over the body of her only son as it was being carried out of the city to be…

Many years ago when our first child was only about one year old and we were living in Banff, Alberta, three teenage girls appeared one afternoon at our door. We did not know any of them, but, they told us,…