How do you deal with bad leaders? Do you just get upset at them? Do you harbor a grudge, or speak evil about them? Most Americans today...

Catholics from every perspective will agree that the Church is largely divided today. I do not think that anyone imagines that there was...

I know there is a lot of static about the change that Pope Francis appears to have made to the Catechism (I am not speaking about the...

"There is light enough to enlighten God's people, and darkness enough to humble them." Blaise Pascal (d. 1662).

As a priest, people admit all kinds of things to me; and I am not referring to confession. I recall once (about 10 years ago) hearing...

In the mind of a first century Jew (before Jesus came along), the Pharisees were considered the most holy of all Jews. In fact, the word...

How do you watch a movie? I do not mean, where are you sitting, or what snack you eat while watching. What I am asking is, do you watch...

I have been speaking much lately about the problem of numerous Catholic clergy teaching heretical things and not being disciplined for...

It is funny how many Catholics respond to me when I mention the sovereignty of God with a comment like "we're not Calvinists, you know?!"...

At a parish that I used to pastor, I once had someone ask if I could turn the heat in the Church up a bit. I tried really hard not to...

There are times in life where we believe we have a grasp of a certain subject or topic, and we come to find out that we only knew a small...

We still (!) hear a lot about the "spirit of the Council". By this phrase, people mean that we should follow some kind of hidden meaning...

The loss of truth can be experienced in many and various ways. Truth is not just lost when people deny it (which is usually obvious)....

I once saw an ad for a Catholic parish in a newspaper (I won't say where it was). It advertised "the fastest Mass in the USA". I could...

"Fast?! Why do they call it a 'fast'? It certainly does not go by 'fast'; Ash Wednesday seems to go on forever. They ought to have called...

"To shrive" -- the Roman Catholic practice of confessing sins to a priest. "To shrove" -- the Roman Catholic practice of the priest...

How does a good parent correct a disobedient child? Yelling? Screaming? Shaming? Abusing? Most of us would say no to each of these. We...

"We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go in order to become good." (St. John Bosco)

"If Mass is a reflection of what life is like in Heaven, and you don't make an effort to go to Mass, why do you think you would be happy...

"Right is right even if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong." (Abp. Fulton Sheen)