Nicholas Sparks is a devout Catholic, generous philanthropist, and the proud father of five children.  When not on tour advocating his 16 books or seven movies, he lives a quiet life in a sleepy town on the North Carolina coast.…

Materialism has become the god of our time. Warnings about the consequences of this appear throughout scripture. Clearly, no other nation in history has enjoyed such prosperity as the United States. Yet, much of our prosperity has been proven not to be prosperity at all.

It is a curious fact that the same book of Exodus which informs us of the command, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16) begins with the story of a good solid practical lie.

In a gathering, once upon a time, a Catholic priest was getting a good-natured ribbing from a friend: “You Catholics,” the friend quipped, “divide the world to conquer it.”

“It’s true,” the priest answered back, “we feel like we own…

The call for “social justice” is often employed today, not as a mandate for the application of Catholic principles and precepts in the public square, but as a slogan for those who wish to promote agendas that are frequently at…

About the time of JFK’s assassination, U.S. Federal Courts began social engineering like men possessed.  Chief Justice Earl Warren mobilized the Judiciary to campaign for an ethereal Constitution as opposed to a written one.  Article I, section I, of the…

Choose the option that most corresponds to your understanding of the length of Lent to determine the Church age and possible location in which you are living:

Option 1:   Extending from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday (roughly six full weeks)…

Last week, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I found myself watching an infomercial on TV.  As I lounged on the couch, a well-groomed woman, middle aged and very blond, pitched the virtues of a wrinkle reducing cream.

“It’ a miracle.  The cream saved me.  My…

“You shall not steal,” says Exodus 20:15. Once again, the Decalogue faces us with an injunction that seems like common sense (and is) but which is also fraught with all sorts of difficulties and distinctions. Consider, for instance, the fact…

James Cameron will have to console himself with the over $2.5 billion in worldwide box office receipts that his film, Avatar, has raked in over the past few months (and more coming in daily). When it came time to hand…