April 21, 2022
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Musical Therapy

I apologize to the โ€œburnoutsโ€ and those who wore โ€œRushโ€ t-shirts as fashion statements growing up.ย I judged you.ย I should have been judging me. In that era, if I rocked, it was to the Doobie Brothers without even knowing what a โ€œdoobieโ€ was.ย I...

Why I Remain Catholic

Not long ago a friend asked me why, with all the scandal and disappointment within the hierarchy in the Catholic Church, I havenโ€™t left and joined a church more in keeping with the Gospel? โ€œAfter all,โ€ he added, โ€œyou yourself have lamented these...

When the President Met the Pope

On November 1, All Saints Day, the Catholic News Service reported on President Bidenโ€™s visit with Pope Francis. Iโ€™ll begin with a background note, then examine what the participants said about the meeting, and, finally, consider what message it sent...

UFOs and Catholic Faith

Weโ€™ve heard about UFOs for more than half a century but they were always depicted as being explainable things like weather balloons or products of peopleโ€™s overactive imaginations. But now there is evidence that they were and are very real phenomena...

Catholicism: Can the Decline Be Reversed?

That the Catholic Church has been losing numbers for decades has been well established. Why the loss has occurred, however, is not as clear. One might expect that Church leaders would be interested in finding the answer and sharing it with their...

Advice to a Disenchanted Catholic

A reader recently offered this (paraphrased) comment on an essay of mine: โ€œYour essay and others like it leave me frustrated. They talk about the impact of Modernism, the failures of U.S. bishops and Pope Francis, sexual abuse by priests, financial...

What Has the Shire to Do with Rome?

The Lord of the Rings serves as an exceptional benchmark of 20th-century literature. It has been acclaimed by both scholars and hippies and has been enjoyed by readers of the general public as well as by faithful Christians. In the years since its...