What is the one thing that Pope Francis is rarely without? Hint: He always brings it with him and is seen wearing it in the majority of his pictures. Give up? It’s his smile. Do an Internet search of images…
Imagine your son tells you he wants to become a priest. Would your heart soar and your soul praise God? Would you be torn; feeling happy he wants to serve God but lamenting the loss of potential grandchildren? Or, would…
I know I should carve out more time for family and sleep. And prayer. Especially prayer. If only I prayed more, then everything else would go smoother. So I make the effort. And then my phone rings. Or the dogs…
The Internet has it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Like everything in life, it’s a battleground of good and evil, best navigated by staying near to God. The Good Prior to the Internet, computers were euphoric enough…
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus” (1Timothy 2:5). Does…
If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy. But really, how can you fit it all in? That was once my question until I learned to find pockets of time in my day with which…
When Maria Wanchick of Bismarck, ND was thirteen years old, she thought of all the lives lost to abortion and imagined putting up some sort of memorial to represent their lives. “At the time, I thought about crosses,” she said…
When we’ve messed up, we should run to our mother. Scripture makes this clear. At the wedding at Cana, either the wine list or the guest list was miscalculated. Someone messed up resulting in the wine running out. Why would…
While many people believe forgetting an injury is part of forgiveness, Fr. Justin Waltz of St. Leo’s Church in Minot suggested just the opposite. In fact, he stated that forgetting is not even possible. “The only type of forgetting I…
Recently, I began corresponding with a young man who once walked down a dark, destructive path. Eric is sentenced to twenty years in a Jamestown, ND prison for his third drug offense. He tracked me down through my publisher after…