Larry and Donna Smith had it good. He worked as an engineer, she as a newspaper editor. They had a happy family and their health—the middle-class American dream. Then Donna was diagnosed with cancer; and Larry had a heart attack, and then another, and another. And the real nightmare began. Alt
Faith in Focus
My Confirmation blunder: A look back at a special day
It was not until I was confirmed, at about age 10, that I got a chance to pick a name for myself—a second name, but still a name that, unlike my baptismal name, was my choice. Confirmation was another one of those “when I call your name, march quietly up to the front of the […]
Like a Cedar of Lebanon: Meeting the monk within
What I learned from my uncle, the monk
Just a Little More Faith: When Sam Rockwell Played Judas Iscariot
“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.
A Visitation: Two strangers unexpectedly bring home the pain of war.
Two strangers bring home the pain of war.
Deaths Door: Why must we turn our eyes from suffering?
Why must we turn our eyes from suffering? A reflection on my mother’s death.
15 Minutes to Let God Lead: Walking with Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
The lessons of Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
A Dinosaur Ponders The Latin Mass
We are fast becoming extinct, we dinosaur Catholics who passed through childhood, adolescence and into adult years with the Latin Mass. Now men and women in the generations after us are talking a lot about the Latin Mass. Perhaps my personal recollections of the journey from Latin to English, surely
Preserving Catholic Identity: Responses to Wilson Miscamble
Responses to Fr. Wilson Miscamble
A Righteous Gentile: Marcel Dubois (1920-2007)
Philosopher, theologian, teacher, spiritual director, custodian of souls, man of God— Marcel Dubois, O.P., was all of these. Of the Christians living in the State of Israel, he was one of those best known to Jews. By the time of his death last June, Father Dubois had taught philosophy to gener
