The holiday season is now in full swing. Many of us already have our plans for Christmas and New Year’s gatherings on the calendar. We have the dates for the office parties and tickets to our favorite Christmas pageants or performances. At this busy time
Earlier this year, one of the big auto insurance companies released an ad that is part of a major effort to promote safer driving. That’s a good thing. Given the tragedies that occur while texting, talking and driving, many other businesses connected to the auto
St. Teresa of Ávila, the great mystic and Doctor of the Church, said: “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of him.” In addition to the wonderful words of wisdom from my patron and favorite saint, whose feast day we celebrated on Oct.
The saying often attributed to Einstein says that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Well, just taking a quick glance at recent statistics regarding the number of sexually transmitted diseases in our country, it’s clear that this
Before I came back to the Church, I considered myself to be very reasonable about the abortion issue. I took the proverbial politically correct approach: an approach that is the only one absolutely accepted, promoted and certainly championed currently by our overly secularized world. Pro-choice
The beautiful white statue of the Blessed Mother still sits on a quaint little shelf in my mother’s bedroom. The statue is very special to my mom for a number of reasons, most importantly for what it represents to her regarding her strong love for
This absolutely has to be fake news. That was my immediate thought after I started to hear and see reports of ESPN’s decision to remove one of their sports announcers from a college football game all because of his name. I thought surely such an
Recently my husband and I were strolling through a busy summer art fair. In addition to the booths selling all kinds of crafts and colorful clothes, we came across a few informational stands representing different local churches as well as political organizations. One of the
As my husband and friends will quickly affirm, there aren’t too many times in my life when I have been rendered speechless. But in the case of recent comments concerning so-called fake news uttered by none other than media personality Katie Couric, that indeed was
Several weeks ago I posted an article on my Facebook page concerning yet one more Christian who was targeted for his or her views. I can’t even remember exactly what the details were other than the story pertained to the issues of religious freedom and
