When people practice shooting guns, they often use a target. It makes it easier to learn how to aim. If you are standing near to the...

What if you heard about a man who found out he had cancer, and he decided to ignore it so that it will go away? Most people would say...

A Priest friend of mine said to me recently that when a church gets large it is more stable, but it becomes less friendly and more...

A cardiologist once gave a good response to someone who was grumbling about her prescribed treatment. “Do I have to take these pills...

Most of us have heard the old adage "curiosity killed the cat". I would like to expand on that and say: "curiosity destroyed the soul"....

“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.” Blaise Pascal

Back before I converted and became Catholic, I had a discussion with another protestant about theology. We were trying to figure out a...

Sometimes it can be very hard for people to appreciate reverence. It is kind of like appreciating a good wine or classical music....

A cardiologist friend once gave a good response to someone who was grumbling about her prescribed treatment. “Do I have to take these...

I was asked recently to attend a "get together" with a number of Protestants. The intent was for all of us to "come together as equals"...

In a brief scene from a movie made back in 1995, a family is attending Mass and the grandmother says at one point: "I liked Mass better...

I was once sitting up late and was at the computer. I was looking at a website the listed used hardware products for sale (almost like an...

"Our whole world is entrenched in sin. There in the quiet of our hearts a woman is calling us, each one of us, back to her Son. Jesus is...

Imagine, if you can, a lawyer who is not concerned with legal precedent. Imagine, if you can, a doctor who does not want to take time to...

(Motorcycle illustration to follow...) I recall once someone who asked on an internet forum for a picture of the "window sticker" for a...

We all have the instinct to run from danger. We see something that we know can harm us and we are tempted to run. Some, out of hard...

I recall once hearing a protestant teacher quoting Psalm 37:25 ("I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread")....

I once knew someone who gave the worst possible advice you can imagine. It was not intentional, but rather just a matter of the combined...

A non-catholic once visited a Catholic Church and attended Mass; not because she was interested in becoming Catholic, but because she was...

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." St. Augustine