In a recent Sunday Gospel reading, Jesus reminded us that the gate into heaven is a narrow one. (Luke 13) The reading made me uncomfortable. The Church tells us that sin requires an element of knowing that we are doing it. The Gospels this summer...
Once there was a cab driver—we’ll call him Reggie—working the night shift; the dispatcher sent him to pick up someone from a small apartment building at 2:30 in the morning. When he arrived, the building was dark, except for a single light in a...
In 1858 Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette near the town of Lourdes in southern France, and in the years that followed, many miraculous cures occurred at the shrine created there. Toward the end of the 19th century a famous French novelist named...
Some years ago an American author named Taylor Caldwell wrote an interesting novel called Dialogues with the Devil, which consists of a series of imaginary letters exchanged between Satan and the archangel Michael. In these letters they express...
In 1962 and 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pair of rulings that forbade praying or reading the Bible in public schools. Since those decisions, teen pregnancy has gone up by 700%, sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high, the...
So that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings. (Genesis 9:15) Evidently those misguided and self-righteous preachers who, in 2005, said that Katrina was God’s punishment for the sins of the people of New Orleans...
… the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. …they turned from their evil ways… We’ve heard countless times that our lives may be compared to a journey. We’ve set out on...
I always get a chuckle when I get an “urgent” email message from my wife. The heading always comes with a highlight telling me to “read the whole message.” My wife knows that along with today’s generation that I, too, have the attention span of a...
