By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It is completely possible that I was not in the right frame of mind to receive Father John Evans’s proclamation on Ash Wednesday that Lent is…
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By Jean Welch Hill– I have always hated Valentine’s Day. For me, it seems to be the most commercial of all holidays designed to do little more than guilt people…
By Gary Topping– Annabel, the cute little girl across the street, invited my wife over to show off her new bunk bed and to recite “Humpty-Dumpty” for her. Later, we…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Recently I introduced a young friend, a 23 year old man who soon will join a Benedictine monastery, to some of my oldest friends, three Trappist…
By Gary Topping– The Bible is full of instances of God calling people to a special vocation or to a general reorientation of their life; in fact, it is a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It certainly is not scientific, and the resulting meteorological prediction rarely is correct. Still, like you, early each February, I anxiously watch the news to find…
By Gary Topping– Last November on this blog, Mike O’Brien posted a tribute to the Family Home Evening program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He…
By Jean Welch Hill– Now is a great time to be a Catholic advocate! While last year was incredibly disheartening, with federal decisions eliminating or drastically cutting a host of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– From my boyhood, for some reason, I remember a poem my mother kept in her prayerbook. It was called “What God Hath Promised,” and was about…
Gary Topping– Last week, probably unknown to most of us except those who can attend daily Mass, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Anthony of the Desert. As the…