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September 2022

September 14, 2022
Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples. That's been happening for...

August 2022

August 10, 2022
When I was a Lutheran seminarian we rarely looked at the Church Fathers, almost never....

March 2022

March 28, 2022
The case of Norman Cousins has always fascinated me. Long editor of the (alas) defunct Saturday Review,...

November 2021

November 09, 2021
There are people living in Sharpsburg, Maryland, so I've read, who “can tell you everything...

July 2021

July 16, 2021
My mother died with dementia. She didn’t know her husband, her grandchildren, her name, and she...

September 2020

September 08, 2020
By my count there are only three Jesuits featured in science fiction literature: a biologist,...

June 2020

June 29, 2020
Like blind dates, extraterrestrials can be such jerks. Two British astrophysicists at the University of...

February 2020

February 28, 2020
Father Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009) In 2007 I and my wife were having dinner with...
February 20, 2020
A diabetic insulin reaction - low blood-sugar – induced a waking dream some nights ago....
February 07, 2020
I've recently watched a few reruns of the Doomsday Preppers episodes from National Geographic, seven...

January 2020

January 29, 2020
Within four years of Roe v. Wade, at least two science fiction writers touched on...

October 2019

October 21, 2019
Brian Carroll of California is the American Solidarity Party nominee for the 2020 presidential election....

September 2019

September 12, 2019
A year ago one October Saturday, my wife and I were at Good Shepherd Catholic Church,...

August 2019

August 27, 2019
“The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man,” mourned Senator Henry Clay,...

July 2019

July 29, 2019
There is a Facebook page I follow, Things They Didn’t Teach Us in Seminary! There...
July 11, 2019
James J. O’Donnell’s Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity (2015)...

April 2019

April 30, 2019
For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever. Amen....
April 25, 2019
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. Though Christ has...
April 23, 2019
As we forgive those who sin against us.   I knew a man who would...
April 18, 2019
Forgive us our sins This petition in the Our Father comes in two halves. The...
April 16, 2019
Give us our daily bread. We have prayed both for and against ourselves in the...
April 11, 2019
Your will be done. We have asked a basic question while working our way through...
April 09, 2019
Your kingdom come. We are looking again at the Our Father, the Lord’s Prayer. So far...
April 04, 2019
When you pray, say "Father." The Our Father is an old familiar friend to us....
April 02, 2019
  The Devil was happy he had taken the Dale Carnegie course on How to...

March 2019

March 26, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 4:28 a.m. Dawn Eden Goldstein (once writing as Dawn Eden) has...
March 19, 2019
Whatever is Jesus doing up in Samaritan hill country? He’s Jewish and Samaritans aren’t. (Jn....
March 12, 2019
The Feast of St. Joseph, Guardian of Our Lord, is an orphan solemnity in the...
March 07, 2019
Theodicy is one of those odd theological words popping up. It is supposed to answer...
March 05, 2019
I still remember setting aside the empty paper towel roll for Hattie’s gerbil. Hattie was my...
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