(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Frank Sinatra scored a major hit with the song “All the Way” in 1957. It also received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the movie “The Joker is…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Jesus might have been an early adherent of the 5–second rule.  That rule dictates that any food dropped on the floor is still edible if snatched up before five seconds…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) (We don’t usually repeat our posts on the Sunday Mass readings, even though the Church repeats those scripture readings in three-year cycles labeled A, B and C. We’re in Year…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Wisdom and ignorance are incompatible delicacies. Ignorance is the delicious but poisonous fruit of ego—and is best savored by the egotist when its fertile seeds are transplanted for fruition inside…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A journey can be exhausting—even if it’s a vacation. Kelley’s Island is an oasis among Lake Erie’s touristy vacation spots. Rent a golf cart and stray from the periphery of…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) How humans treat food is a good standard by which to compare us 21st-Century consumers to our biblical ancestors. Today’s well-fed populations tend to live to eat more than we…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Accomplishing unity from among humanity’s multitude of personalities would have been a miracle in any era. So consider the miracles Elisha and Jesus pull off in this Sunday’s readings (2…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Summer is a good time for retreats. They’re like vacations from worldly priorities, reminding us there’s only one true priority. Church retreats typically take place away from daily distractions that…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This year’s college commencement ceremonies received more attention than they usually do. Universities across the country were beset by protests over the latest Middle-East crisis, and graduates weren’t sure they’d…

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Fear breeds courage. Weakness breeds strength. Familiarity breeds Contempt. Scripture is filled with such contradictions, and Sunday’s readings are packed with them too. Sunday’s gospel is about that third one,…