Sister Laura asked me, Sister Anne of the Touch of Death, to water her garden. I warned her. "I love plants, I really do, but I have no idea how to take care of them." Sister Laura was not dissuaded, in part, I am sure, because there are so few sisters left here at the motherhouse that she could ask. I tried to impress upon her the risk she was undertaking, and she fully assumed it. Read more
A guest post from FatherAnthony Gerber that includes Scriptural evidence that Jesus made his bed! - "What gets you out of bed in the morning? The scaffolding is being removed. What will we see? The Lord consecrated us in truth and prays for us that we might have a good reason for getting up each morning. He prays the reason might be love…." Read more
Five priests and seminarians are setting out on a 1,400 mile bike trip to promote vocations. Find out how you can follow and support them. (And let me know if you want to do the same thing with Vespas...) Read more
Taylor Swift's new video "Bad Blood" got me thinking. Men and women do things differently, which is one reason why I am okay with the Church's teaching excluding women from priestly ordination. Read more
The trouble I see with transactional justice, especially when it goes as far as the death penalty, is that it keeps society on the level of transactional violence: it is just that society is authorized to carry out the violent act and random citizens are not. Read more
Do you know someone who has left the Church? Who do you ask to pray for your loved ones Sometimes St. Monica is invoked on behalf of children who have strayed from the faith. And she definitely can be a powerful intercessor. But there is another intercessor we should never forget when we pray for friends and family who have left the Church: our Blessed Mother. Here are three reasons why... Read more
You may have read the new Pew statistics that suggest that Christianity in the United States is on the decline. Here are some concrete, clear things that we can do as we search as a Church together to respond to these trends. Read more
This is a piece I wrote in 2012 that I think is still relevant to the recent news that the number of people unaffiliated with any religion in the US has risen from 46 million in 2012 to 56 million in 2014. I will be posting more on this subject shortly. A recent study released by The Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life found that a growing number of adults in the United States now claim no religious affiliation. While many people look at these statistics and... Read more
Do you struggle with something that you wish you could be rid of? All of us do. We have our own special forms of behavior that don’t help us but hurt us. The other day I was reading Galatians and a line in it stopped me cold; it's the answer to all our bad behaviors. Read more
Avengers: Age of Ultron is chock-full of action, humor and good messages. There is one unfortunate choice in the writing, but other than that this movie delivers lots of entertainment and fun. Read more
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