And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye. Jesus Christ Pope Francis is calling all... Read more
Like every pope before him, Pope Francis brings his own history to the Papacy. Pope John Paul II was deeply influenced by his experiences living under the Nazis and then the Communists. Pope Benedict XVI was influenced by his academic background as well as growing up under the Nazis and then living in a country divided into slave and free. These life experiences added human understanding and dimension to the way they lived their office. Pope Francis comes from,... Read more
The Immaculate Conception is the door opening on our salvation. It is God the Father, preparing the way for the birth of God the Son by first preparing a holy mother for Him. The idea that God chose to enter the world as a helpless baby, born to a young girl and her carpenter husband in a backwater province of a conquered nation goes against everything we know and believe about what makes a person important. We live in a... Read more
This litany is a wonderful way to pray today on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Read more
This is a beautiful testimony of conversion to Jesus. In a way, it’s a rescue story. Notice this young man’s discussion of his friends who led him to Christ by their example, witness and loving invitation. That is a potent form of evangelization. It is what Pope Francis is trying to teach us. The question is, do we have the ears to hear? Read more
The core assumption of abortion is that the laws we write have the power to determine who is human. It leads to the secondary assumption that if our laws say that a whole segment of the human population is not human enough to be worthy of the most basic human right of all human beings — the right to life — then that is, because the law says it, true. This is a lie, and on this lie abortion... Read more
This is basically what Pope Francis teaches about economics in Evangelii Gaudium. There is nothing “Marxist” about it. It is basic Gospel teaching that every serious Christian should seek to follow. It comes from an Oklahoma Southern Baptist family, talking about their business. This is the brave Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby. Read more
This is my favorite Advent Hymn. I love its haunting melody and plaintive cry for our savior. It makes me think of all the lost people who are crying out for Him, even, sometimes, with their angry attacks on Christianity. At heart, so much of this culture’s anger toward our faith is a cry of unrequited love from people who don’t know that God loves them. Read more
Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish brothers and sisters. Read more
It’s time for a break. Nothing amuses me more than my favorite YouTube videos, Convos with My Two-Year-Old. Watch for Dad’s reaction at the end. It’s priceless. Read more
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