I have been reading a number of articles regarding Sister Wilhelmina in Gower, Missouri. One thing keeps popping up that bugs the living...

Some Religious sisters are so stubborn! Even after they die, some of them refuse to give in to corruption; literally! If you have not yet...

When I was a protestant pastor, I would often push people to read the Scriptures more. I would tell them it was the way we can experience...

What kinds of things shock you? Are you shocked by scary stories? Are you shocked by the transgender attacks on the family? Are you...

Pope Benedict XVI (in a general audience, on October 17, 2012) said that many of the worst problems in the Church are caused by...

As I mentioned in my homily yesterday, I want to give some explanation on how to pray imprecations upon those who show little or no signs...

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of...

If you refuse to be safe, you are living unsafely. If you refuse to be reverent, you are living irreverently. One choice of "unsafety" is...

In the book (not the movie!), The Two Towers, Saruman speaks to Gandalf and the others who are with him soon after Isengard was besieged....

I baptized my first grandchild this last Sunday. Yes, it was a completely different experience from any of the other baptisms I have...

Someone recently asked me what the difference is between the modernist pursuit of the "new" and the promises that God "makes all things...

"Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons." St. Therese of Lisieux

I have been reading a few different sources lately about the way that modernism infiltrated American society at the beginning of the 20th...

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible...

A diocese somewhere here in these USA has implemented regular meetings for the Priests to encourage holiness, and ministerial...

I recently read a report from a few years back. It was looking at the impact that our words have on relationships. Most specifically, it...

Those Gifts of God God has placed various and sundry things in your life to help you on your journey to Heaven. One of the...

How do you deal with conflict? Some run from it at all costs (like the lady I heard about who never married because she said she had to...

A number of years ago the Church changed the rules regarding fasting and abstinence and made them easier. There were, at the time, more...

A few years back, Christmas landed on a Monday. A parishioner said to me how nice it was that he could "kill two birds with one stone" by...