In a neat little book entitled, Successful Fathers James B. Stenson highlights several ways in which the modern father is at a...

Whatever you do you must plant seeds in his mind that what was once clearly beautiful and demanding of all of his courage is simply not...

One of the great turning points in the spiritual life is the realization that progress – growth into spiritual maturity – comes when we...

It is love that makes people do the unimportant things as if they were important things; or rather it is love that has elevated the...

One of the greatest homilies on the Holy Spirit came from a seven year old boy. He was playing Mass with his siblings, and of course, he...

Rome was a vast and powerful empire. It was modern both in the sense of industry as well as law, and what it built still lasts albeit as...

‘Death is nature’s remedy for all things, so why not the same for the state?’ Or so Thomas More’s character pondered in the famous book...

We all know what justice is. In fact we have known about it for as far back as we can remember, it is to give to someone what is due to...

What is the difference between justice and mercy? And what does it mean when God is described as both?

There is something radically transformative about encountering a person who has less materially than you and yet is quantifiably more...

I am still coming to grips with the fact that I live among the most dangerous people in the world. And what makes it extremely difficult...

We all deserve happiness but we do not all deserve marriage, unless of course we are talking about children. Yes, I said it. The only...

It is astonishing that no one had thought of the name before, after all the name of Francis has been revered for centuries and has...

I just hate those conservative husbands, you know the kind that I am speaking about.  They love their wives and do not hold them in...

If Dracula has taught us anything it is that the life of the anti-Christ is a desperate one. For while it is obvious that this famous...

While children are young they love what their parents love. They do this because they love you and they do this because they believe that...

The difficulty with Clark Kent was never that he had arisen from obscurity or that he towered so large over the rest of humanity.  The...

In days when saints are needed but lacking heroes will usually do for a time.  And when education and notions of the human person are...

A thought has occurred to me as all thoughts do, when I’d rather not be thinking at all. You see I was putting my children to bed after a...

One saves a culture through the senses (a catholic thought if I have ever had one); and of course one must save the ear through the...