On September 29, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the three Archangels who have been venerated throughout the history of the Church: Michael (from the Hebrew Who Is Like God?), who defends the friends
Back in March, before the field of presidential candidates had been narrowed to two (ignoring the minor party candidates who have no chance of winning), I published a post titled "What If the Choice Comes
There is trouble in the Pitt-Jolie household. Actress Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from her husband, actor Brad Pitt. The couple, who met in 2004 on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", has
I am a lazy cook. There was a time when I spent a lot of time poring over cookbooks, fine-tuning shopping lists, experimenting with bananas flambeau, stuffing a rainbow trout and stitching it closed. For
Pope Francis had some strong words last week regarding priests who don't live up to the high standard of their vocation. Speaking to new bishops gathered at the Vatican, the Holy Father warned about the apparently
There's a terrible story out of Belgium today: A young child has been euthanized in what's being hailed as a "landmark case"--the first time Belgium's two-year-old "mercy killing" legislation has been applied in a case
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, took to Twitter last night to correct the assertion by pro-abortion lobby group Catholics for Choice that “Public funding for abortion is a Catholic social justice
I remember the first time I saw Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle on EWTN. She seemed so delicate, so mild-mannered, so firm in her Catholic faith. Later I met Donna-Marie at a meeting of the Catholic Writers
I saw the World Trade Center only once. It was 1998 or 1999. It had been a number of years since I’d visited New York City; but when our youngest son Jerry began working at an airline, I
Is there a problem with race relations in America? This has been the year when the Black Lives Matter movement marched in San Francisco, protested in Salt Lake City and in Dallas, and organized protests
