"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as EAGLES. They shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
– Isaiah 40:31
Kathy Schiffer is the wife of a deacon and mother of three grown children, and currently works as Communications/ Media Relations Coordinator for Guest House, the treatment center for Catholic clergy and religious.
I am aware that in saying this, I stand against many of you: people whom I respect, people whose work on behalf of the Church is laudable. But the vitriol directed against Cardinal Bernard Law must stop! With the news that the Cardinal has quietly resigned from his post as Archpriest of the Basilica of […]
You may not know this—who thinks of St. Wenceslaus except at Christmastime?—but today, September 28, is his feastday. Wenceslaus was born in 903 to a Christian father and a pagan mother. It was his devout grandmother, St. Ludmilla, who educated Wenceslaus in the Christian faith. After Wenceslaus’ father, Duke Wratislaw, died, his pagan mother Dragomir […]
REFINANCEHOMEMORTGAGEE.COM img class=”alignleft home-thumb wp-image-3484″ title=”Dress Barn” src=”http://kathyschiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Dress-Barn.jpg” alt=”” width=”225″ />“This store,” asked the diminutive Filipino woman as I reached for the door at my local Dress Barn, “do they only sell clothes for you, or do they also sell clothes for thin women like me?” What would you have done? Gotten angry or hurt […]
It’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! Once again, the Tigers and Hammerheads and Bullheads and Great Whites will thrill, moving ominously through peaceful waters—dorsal fins gleaming, jaws taut, teeth menacing as they glide toward their unsuspecting prey. We’ll watch “Jaws” again, both the first one and the sequel; and we’ll worry again whether everyone […]
Who can turn away a sweet little girl, boxes of cookies in her wagon, smiling hopefully at your front door? And who can turn down the savory pleasures to be found in every box of Thin Mints and Samoas and Savannahs? * * * * * Well, I can. You see, the proceeds from the […]