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He Will Not Leave Us Orphans

He Will Not Leave Us Orphans

What do Oliver Twist, Annie, and the children from Les Miserables all have in common?...

Parents with Cell Phones: How Children Suffer Due to Our Distracting Devices

Parents with Cell Phones: How Children Suffer Due to Our...

When my children were just entering school age, I was concerned about how often...

The Holy Spirit’s Seven Gifts to the Soul

The Holy Spirit’s Seven Gifts to the Soul

One of the best analogies given in years past describing the Presence, Power and...

St. Bede the Venerable

St. Bede the Venerable

St. Bede (672?-735) was an English scholar and monk widely acknowledged as a saint...

Joyful Renewal in the Easter Sacraments

Joyful Renewal in the Easter Sacraments

“Sacraments Season” comes around each year in the Church. In most parishes, this...

Endow: Affirming Teens in their God-Given Dignity

Endow: Affirming Teens in their God-Given Dignity

It is a rough time to be a teenager. The combined pressures of school, relationships,...

“Do not allow your heart to dwell so often on your past failings. It is more important...

Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

The gospel today tells us of the healing of a blind man in the vicinity of Bethsaida,...

How Pro-Life Fathers Can Evangelize the Culture

How Pro-Life Fathers Can Evangelize the Culture

“Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.” I often find...

Preparing for Lent: A Reflection on Psalm 90

Preparing for Lent: A Reflection on Psalm 90

Lord, you have been our refugethrough all generations.Before the mountains were...

Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites

Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites

In 1240 seven noblemen of the prosperous and cultured Italian city of Florence decided...

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Peter is an immensely likable sort of a character. He is so human. One moment he...

Catholicism’s Rich Understanding of God

Catholicism’s Rich Understanding of God

Despite our differences, it is often said that Catholics and Protestants at least...

Wordle & the Word of God

Wordle & the Word of God

The newest social media trend has users logging onto Wordle on a daily basis to...

We Need a Better Response to Miscarriage

We Need a Better Response to Miscarriage

We are called to be boldly pro-life in the face of the culture of death. To usher...

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Being sent to look after God’s flock is quite challenging. It would be ideal to...

Hidden and Glorious: Two Images of Mary in the Book of Revelation

Hidden and Glorious: Two Images of Mary in the Book of...

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under...

Bringing Jesus to the Homebound

Bringing Jesus to the Homebound

I bring Holy Communion to my parish’s homebound. Because my visits are regular and...

For All of Us Who Feel Ignored by the “Listening Church”

For All of Us Who Feel Ignored by the “Listening Church”

There are a lot of wounds in the Mystical Body today and, in many ways, the Synod...

St. Joan of Valois

St. Joan of Valois

Joan, or Jane, the physically deformed daughter of King Louis XI of France, was...