Who is a saint? Each day, this question is typed into internet search engines. Perhaps this is so because new saints (e.g., Sts. John Paul and John XXIII) have just been canonized. Or maybe we are curious as to whether our name bears any resemblance...
Did President Obama really say, “ I will not stand for this outrage” and then proceed to sit down? Well, not quite. But he might as well have. Making forceful statements and then doing nothing has been the President’s pattern with the Benghazi...
There were only eleven of them, eleven disciples. Judas had betrayed the Lord. Matthias had not yet been chosen. So just eleven men went to Galilee following the message Jesus had given to them on Easter Sunday through Mary Magdalen. They were told...
A Christian evangelist was trying to help a young man from Sweden named Andreas accept Jesus as his Savior. Andreas said, “I’ve been told that if I decide to follow Jesus, He will reward me by giving me many blessings and meeting all my material...
For once, a United Nations body has done the world a service in shining a bright light on the murderous regime in Communist North Korea, which systematically enslaves, starves and executes its own people. In a scathing report released in February...
When Jesus ascended, did He go “up” into heaven? You might think the answer is obviously yes.” But thoughtful reflection gives us an answer that is not so simple. We can say “yes” He went up into heaven only in the context of saying that at His...
When Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was secretly recorded making racist remarks, the National Basketball Association recognized immediately that it had a crisis on its hands. Many corporate sponsors of Clippers games withdrew their...
I appreciate the value of prescription medicines as much as anyone. When I was ten years old, the then-new wonder drug penicillin saved me from peritonitis. I know, too, that other drugs perform medical miracles today. Yet even so, I am wary of...
