With cause I return to the scurrilously inflected Saint Cajetan of Thiene/Sister Laura Mignani allusion in Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquezโs virulently anti-Catholic, 1994 novel Of Love and Other Demons, a reference that I first...
Once there was an unhappily married womanโweโll call her Janeโwho, at a young age, had married a handsome, dashing, but self-centered man weโll call Alphonse.ย Her family and friends had warned her that Alphonse had a mean, dominating...
Once upon a time, in a kingdom known for its peace and prosperity, everyone was happy and friendly.ย There was little crime there, and the few people who broke the law were punished quickly and severely.ย One day a poor man stole a loaf of bread to...
Early in the 20th century, there was a man in Scotlandโweโll call him Owenโwho, as a boy of fifteen, had fallen and broken his back.ย As a result, he was confined to his bed for the next forty years, all the while in terrible pain.ย Nevertheless, his...
โFor us, after God, the greatest love is Polandโ – Bl. Stefan Wyszyลski In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: โThe Lord has always revealed the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit to mortals, but now that evil is...
We are often confronted by painful reminders of how the culture of death is hardening the hearts of many and, thus, devastating our country and large portions of the world also in ways not readily evident.ย If some of us need evidence of this...
My mom, Helen Moyse Borst died on March 11th after battling Alzheimerโs for several years. I never give the year but simply say 3/11 because she died exactly six months before the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. She...
Everything changes when we realize God loves us unconditionally! This realization is not easy for many of us to accept. We may have grown up in an environment in which we were rewarded with love when we did what our parents wanted us to do. I am a...
