Image: Pixabay St. Gabriel Possenti grabbed the handgun, aimed at a lizard crossing the road, and pulled the trigger. Bam! With his first shot, he struck his target; flesh from the hapless lizard
It's not a happy scenario: What if, next November, the choice comes down to voting for Hillary Clinton or for Donald Trump? It's almost too late to avoid that fate; but if there is anything
Thank you, thank you to Pauline Press for this cute and colorful Bible Activity Book to help children understand and appreciate the Easter story. Four- to seven-year-olds will learn about Jesus through games and puzzles,
Do you have a CRS Rice Bowl to return to your parish? When I was in grade school, more than a few years ago, we always looked forward to the Operation Rice Bowl campaign in
"Vulgarity, oafishness, shocking ignorance, and — we do not hesitate to use the word — demagoguery." Those are among the charges which 37 of America's leading Catholics have leveled against GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Princeton Professor
If you follow what I write, perhaps you know that I am a huge Dean Koontz fan. My husband and I have collected probably every book Koontz has ever written, and I stash them all
On the evening of August 21, 1879, Mary McLoughlin and Mary Beirne, two women from the small Irish town of Knock, were walking home in a drizzling rain. As they reached the town church, they
Why are some Catholics so darned afraid of the human body? Have they not read Genesis 1:31, when God saw everything that he had made and said that it was very good? I have been pondering
Richard Cole was not much of a believer: By his own admission, he didn’t pray, he didn’t worship. He was in recovery following years of alcohol abuse. Raised Methodist, he had fled the church of
I was in love. My boyfriend was working in his first after-college job as managing editor of a small chain of local newspapers; and I had an idea: When February 29 (Leap Year Day) rolled around,
