In the mind of a first century Jew (before Jesus came along), the Pharisees were considered the most holy of all Jews. In fact, the word...

How do you watch a movie? I do not mean, where are you sitting, or what snack you eat while watching. What I am asking is, do you watch...

I have been speaking much lately about the problem of numerous Catholic clergy teaching heretical things and not being disciplined for...

It is funny how many Catholics respond to me when I mention the sovereignty of God with a comment like "we're not Calvinists, you know?!"...

At a parish that I used to pastor, I once had someone ask if I could turn the heat in the Church up a bit. I tried really hard not to...

There are times in life where we believe we have a grasp of a certain subject or topic, and we come to find out that we only knew a small...

We still (!) hear a lot about the "spirit of the Council". By this phrase, people mean that we should follow some kind of hidden meaning...

The loss of truth can be experienced in many and various ways. Truth is not just lost when people deny it (which is usually obvious)....

I once saw an ad for a Catholic parish in a newspaper (I won't say where it was). It advertised "the fastest Mass in the USA". I could...

"Fast?! Why do they call it a 'fast'? It certainly does not go by 'fast'; Ash Wednesday seems to go on forever. They ought to have called...

"To shrive" -- the Roman Catholic practice of confessing sins to a priest. "To shrove" -- the Roman Catholic practice of the priest...

How does a good parent correct a disobedient child? Yelling? Screaming? Shaming? Abusing? Most of us would say no to each of these. We...

"We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go in order to become good." (St. John Bosco)

"If Mass is a reflection of what life is like in Heaven, and you don't make an effort to go to Mass, why do you think you would be happy...

"Right is right even if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong." (Abp. Fulton Sheen)

I saw a woman in need the other day. She was struggling with a package and had a child with her and another in a car-seat she was...

Apparently, a number of years ago someone decided that the traditional practice of "pre-lent" was too confusing for the laity and he...

Maybe you have heard about this days-long "revival" that happened at a protestant college. The last I heard it was a chapel "prayer and...

There was once a college history class where the first day of class there was a name written on the corner of the blackboard. Never once...

Many priests do not like doing any kind of counseling, and they end up referring most people to professional counselors. Not to say...