Don’t give up! Don’t give up! Don’t give up! Don’t give up on your family. God’s love and mercy are bigger than your family challenges! No matter what your situation is with your family, whatever the circumstances, God is greater than your...
Don’t do it. Please, don’t even try it. Don’t even think about thinking about trying it. It won’t work, it can’t work, no one wants a third party and certainly not a religious, let alone Catholic, political entity. Better toe the two-party line...
God is love. Where there is love, there is God. Where there is great love, with our families and those closest to us, I have found great miracles often occur. With love, we can be pure of heart, leading us to serve as ambassadors of Christ with...
The French Catholic theologian, Blaise Pascal, once remarked that “man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.” During this global pandemic, it is true that we’ve been required to think on our feet and respond to the...
I cannot think of any other institution, besides the Catholic Church, that gives so much weight to the traditional concept of family as to dedicate a whole Sunday to it. My dear friends in Christ, in case you have not noticed, let me tell you that...
Amid astonishing revelations, all laden with theological significance, the prologue of the Gospel of John, states also something very remarkable but that might slip below our “spiritual radar:” And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among...
In the liturgical life of the Church, many days of the year are dedicated to concrete events and persons. Of course, there are many feasts for Jesus. But in addition, we remember Mary, the saints, and the “signature” moments in the...
The New York Times newspaper has an outdoors column called “Wood, Fish, and Stream,” and on one occasion the author of the column received a letter which said, “Would you tell where I could find a place to fish that is not more than five or six...
