Faith in our Better Angels
(For the audio version of this post, please visit: ) One of the first prayers Catholic parents teach their children is the one to our guardian angel. It’s also one of the first prayers adults stop saying as we get…
Why is God’s Truth so Beautiful?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit ) There’s something gratuitously beautiful about how God feeds us. Gratuitous is also how science describes nature’s indescribable beauty. The colors and patterns in a butterfly’s wings serve no practical purpose…
One Wish Tells Your Story
(For the audio version of this post, please visit: ) Our most beloved fairy tales teach lessons about the dangers of wishes. Stories like “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp” and “The Monkey’s Paw” involve people given three of them. Thanks…
Keep “The Bad Seed” in the Fiction Section
(For the audio version of this post, please select: ) “The Bad Seed” is one of the scariest horror stories ever written. Its author William March makes us ponder, what if a child could be born bad—even murderous—and no amount…
Make God’s Word Your Own
For the audio version of this blog, visit: Them that’s got shall haveThem that’s not shall loseSo the Bible says and it still is newsMama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that’s got his own, that’s…
Overthrow the Herod within You
[Originally posted here 12 years ago.] (For the audio version of this post, visit ) Poor King Herod. Which one? Take your pick. They were all pathetic individuals in their lust for power under the boot of the Roman Empire. …
Seek and Find God’s Mind
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Read the entire chapter from which Sunday’s first reading came (2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a) and one might think the prophet Elisha was the Old Testament version of Christ. He brings…
God Can’t Be Bullied
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Bullying has become an art on social media. It takes many forms, from the disguised insults of “frenemies” to the open mockery of cyber harassers. But this is an ancient…
YOU are one of The Chosen People
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Last week we quoted from the new book “If There Is No God,” in which Jewish Author and Scholar Dennis Prager argues that Judeo-Christian values must overcome secular reason if…
Fed By an Endless Value Chain
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Earthly food tends to support a secular system of feelings, giving us reasons to desire life or death, depending on whether our bellies are full or starving. Food from God…