H APPY NEW YEAR! & HAPPY FEAST OF MARY MOTHER OF GOD ( Don't forget it is a holy day of obligation this year! ) Masses at S...

D ear Diary,   It was a very good Christmas celebration.   Things seemed to flow alon   Well, except for the fire in the sacristy....

M erry Christmas!   The past two days made me so happy to be Catholic!   What a wonderful (if exhausting) celebration it was....

W hen I was a kid, my best friend and next door neighbor Andy got the first computer on the block.  It was a big, clunky thing that needed ...

Paragraph 56 of Lumen Gentium   G od is so cool.   In the same way He allows us to make up for sin by our asking forgiveness just ...

I love the whole idea that the Church is some great, well oiled mega power bent on taking over the world spawning books and movies about ...

I F your town still has a newspaper, and IF you still get it, and IF on Sunday they still have the Parade Magazine (will someday I have to...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " Y ou don't always have to destroy a wounded animal.  Sometimes you just remove the tho...

L ast Monday I was on a field trip, which ate up a sufficient amount of time that the blog post that day had to be skipped.  Sharon Dietric...

N ow here’s a case when I will use the term “the spirit of Vatican II” and think it has merit.   As we head into the last throws of adve...

W hile it is pretty cool that Pope Francis was named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year,” he is not the first pope to be named so.   Bles...

Y es . . . It’s a guilty pleasure . . .   I will admit that I watch “Dexter.”   For those unfamiliar with this show: it is the...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  "( T he room) smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was 'G...

Lumen Gentium paragraphs 53 &54   W hat was she thinking?   What was she feeling?   What was she facing?   To some extent, these...

“ C ommunity is lost in virtual communion” was the title of an editorial that appeared in the Beacon Journal last week written by Alex...