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April 2014

April 04, 2014
  Okay, so I've compared myself to a few people in my life. I admit...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
  "I looked at the rolling country, and at the pale ribbon of road in...
March 20, 2014
    “The fact of the matter is that there is a little bit of...
March 15, 2014
"Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being...
March 10, 2014
"Pax tecum." I'll never forget those two words. And the beaming face of the man...
March 07, 2014
  I used to be in touch. Well at least I thought I was. For...
March 05, 2014
  "I die the King's good servant, but God's first."  -  St. Thomas More Last...
March 01, 2014
  In September, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI found himself standing in Westminster Hall, London before...

February 2014

February 24, 2014
Author's note: I originally published this essay in 2012, but brought it back in the...
February 20, 2014
  I was younger - much younger - at the time. But the list caught...
February 17, 2014
  It's hard to say how many times I've seen it, but this time it...
February 14, 2014
  "If you want your faith, you have to work for it. It is a...
February 11, 2014
  It was nearly time. Chuck's funeral would start in a few hours and it...
February 08, 2014
It came to me in a series of texts. Three classic Iphone beeps to be...
February 03, 2014
Extras. That's what it was called. It was a simple enough title and premise. Between...

January 2014

January 27, 2014
  "Remember, Tod, life is in the trenches." - Dad I remember it quite clearly...
January 25, 2014
Lunch was about to begin. And I was hungry. Working in an internal medicine clinic,...
January 22, 2014
"Say, I've been thinking..." That's how it began...To all my married male friends out there,...
January 16, 2014
"And I said to myself , inside my own mind: 'What are you doing? You are...
January 13, 2014
  "It is not always wrong even to go, like Dante, to the brink of...
January 11, 2014
  "Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every...
January 07, 2014
The Duke of Norfolk: "Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know...
January 03, 2014
After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and...

December 2013

December 30, 2013
  Pause. There was a pause. My wife may deny it, but it was there....
December 27, 2013
  There must have been something extraordinary in His Presence. This is the thought I...
December 25, 2013
It is the most simple yet the most complex event in history. It started when...
December 21, 2013
  Joy. We are about to enter a Season of Joy known as Christmastide. Advent...
December 19, 2013
And so she fell asleep...and had dreams. Wonderful dreams. Clara had spent a magical Christmas...
December 15, 2013
"Which do you like, Dad, the boots or the shoes?" My six year-old posed a...
December 12, 2013
"Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.”  - St. Bernard of...
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