Election Anxiety
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a bit of election anxiety. I’m not crazy about either presidential candidate, to be honest, but using the standards of my faith, ...
Do Believers Have Their Act Together?
I vividly recall when, as a kid, I learned that a priest who was popular nationally for his ultra-traditionalist, anti-Semitic radio broadcasts, was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for insisting ...
The Problem with “Chosen Families”
Listening to a radio broadcast recently, I heard an interview of a woman who was advocating for more freedom for women. Basically, she said that women should be free from ...
Are We Becoming “Junkified?”
One of my favorite all-time Saturday Night Live characters was Debbie Downer, a fictional person created and portrayed by the show’s regular, Rachel Dratch. Debbie could always be counted on ...
Can the Ordinary Become Extraordinary?
When I read gospel passages like the following from the Gospel of John – the whole of which was read in Catholic and other churches a few weeks ago – ...
What Hiking and “Church” Have in Common
My wife, Amparo, and I were blessed over the Labor Day weekend by a visit from our son, Sean, his wife and two sons, aged 8 and 10. They live ...