I hear my friend Paul singing. “Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble…” You’d think that, for as many times as I’ve tasted shoe leather I would have absolutely no trouble cutting myself a huge slice of humble pie and eating it with gusto.
As I chomp down my pie, I’d like to take a moment to qualify my comment about secular media. It could have been taken to imply that (more…)
Well, this is interesting.
Channel 12 News wants to interview me about the sacredness of holidays. Yeah, me. About the sacredness of holidays. A reporter called the house tonight while I was out grocery shopping. She wanted to talk to me about an article/blog post I’d actually written a couple of years ago for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, about keeping holidays as holydays. (more…)
Last week, I was asked to run commentary for the live stream of the Opening Ceremonies of the Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt’s Jubilee Year held in Vallendar, Germany but broadcast worldwide through the EWTN Studios in Birmingham, Alabama.
Because the need had come up (more…)
Lots going on in the next couple of days. When you commit yourself to being active in the apostolate, God takes you very seriously! That’s a good thing, I suppose, because if God didn’t keep me busy I get into trouble. Of course, I still get into trouble, but that’s another blog post… (more…)
Right about this time 31 years ago, I was at my mother-in-law’s house, standing in the little room off the kitchen, stomach quivering. Everyone in the house was hustling and bustling about, except for my poor mother-in-law, who was nervously working her way up the 100 buttons on the back of my wedding (more…)
In the past few days, the Holy Father has gifted the world with not one, but three addresses worth contemplating.Â
The first took place on Sunday, October 13 as Pope Francis consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary before a throng of more than 100 thousand people. I can hardly (more…)
Genetic testing in here, whether we like it or not, and for better or worse. The new developments, especially a recently developed test that claims it can predict what health conditions and at what age your child will die, bring with them a host of questions. One of those questions – how this can effect our faith – I’ve posed in “Faith, genetics and life decisions collide again,” appearing in the October 13 edition of Our Sunday Visitor.
I hope you’ll read my article (at the link below) and discuss it with others. This is a topic that should make us stop and say, “Hmmmm.” More than that, it’s a topic that should open us to prayerful thought and animated discussion. (more…)