Book Review: The Rebuilt Field Guide
Are you a parish that just can’t seem to get started on moving from maintenance to mission? A place where money, staffing, your community (and more) have been…
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What Our Country Needs: “Return To Order” by John Horvat II
I heard about the book, Return To Order-Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need to Go-From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society”…
Review: St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone
“St. Thomas is the greatest doctor of the Church,” author Dave Palmer said, “and I assert that children can be taught his basic philosophy, as I do with…
A Lesson in Stewardship
Sunday Readings for September 18, 2016, the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Our society tolerates religion, as long as it keeps to itself. After all, America is about…
An Integration of Church and State
I don’t often post political pieces. In fact, this may be a first. But as I sit at my desk writing this, I find myself deeply troubled by our…
Book Review – Proclaiming the Message of Life by Fr. Frank Pavone
How often have you been to Mass, listened to the readings and homily and heard a clear message about the sanctity of life and why abortion is wrong?…
Catholic Social Teaching Principles in the Workplace
Many organizations in Western culture subscribe to a secular philosophy when conducting business as it relates to their labor management policies and practices. I believe that Catholic Social…
Not Peace but the Sword
Sunday Readings for August 14, 2016 the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time One of the themes of Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2013 was to “shake things…
Transgenderism: Truth and Charity
With the legalization of same-sex “marriage” throughout our country, the forces of the ongoing sexual revolution have now made transgender acceptance the new goal. In the last year…
Should the Church Apologize?
As if often the case, Pope Francis was the subject of sensationalist headlines recently. Many of them read something along the lines of: “Pope Francis Says Catholic Church…