The young woman had come with her boyfriend to the abortuary to kill their unborn baby. They were both 19 or 20 year-old college students. As they walked through the parking lot I talked to them from the sidewalk. I…

Some months ago I listened to a client tell me how her sister had betrayed her in connection with the estate of their father. My client is hardly alone as a victim of betrayal. It is a rare person who…

In the city where I live there is a reproduction of Jesus and the apostles at the Last Supper. The figures are made out of wax, and are patterned on Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco painted on the wall of the…

The Eucharist is something that Catholics experience frequently. But do we take time to seriously contemplate what happens at Mass? If not, maybe we should. The time will be well spent because, while it is absolutely true that the Holy…

A few years ago I was appointed the temporary guardian in a case involving a man who was a patient in one of the major non-profit hospitals in town. He had lived many years on the streets, and was a…

If you have never been to the national march for life in Washington D.C. you should go sometime. You will see virtually nothing on the secular TV channels about the march because they are too biased to tell the truth.…

It was a shocking story when it first came out in the media. A professed religious from a Dominican convent in Illinois openly supports abortion on demand, and to confirm her support she has worked at a Chicago area…

Just after the beginning of the season of Advent, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Church gives us a front row seat both to the tragic story of the pride and disobedience that led to the fall of…

"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you," said St. Augustine. Spe Salvi , the second encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is a lesson on true Christian hope that is necessary…

Approaching 80 years, Sister Mary Justina OSB was old by any standard. But for the those of us in her 5th grade class in 1957, the old, kindly nun was definitely in the ancient category, a living archaeological specimen. She…