This is the 15th year that I’ve helped with the R.C.I.A. program, and all except one, with Fr. Hilton. Looking back over time, I can see the changes and the sameness.
The sameness: the Holy Spirit continues to call, thanks be to God, and there’s no point in trying to guess who will come forward to [...]

When we talk of “The Media” we usually mean TV, radio and newspapers. But the media includes books, magazines, billboards, the internet, anything and everything that is used to communicate with a large audience. So, Catholic Media has been around for millennia. From the first letters written by the Apostles to the Encyclicals promulgated by [...]

Ok ladies. There has been a lot of discussion (and confusion) about marriage and the role of women, especially in the last few years. Most of it seems directed to diminishing the importance of the traditional family as the first building block of a solid, stable, peaceful society. If you are older than 30, you [...]

Some time ago, I was listening to KPIO 1570 AM (Catholic radio). They were interviewing a man from Denver, Thomas Zordani, who had written a book: Faith Finances. His story grabbed my attention, because he was speaking of his journey from homelessness to relative affluence. In his words, he had been so deeply in debt [...]

Last weekend, Fr. Hilton spoke of the three levels of love, and summarized them as emotion, commitment and sacrifice
As he talked, I could picture all three. Take the first, emotion; two young kids, walking so close that they are in danger of stumbling, paying no attention to the light pole standing in their path. You [...]

Have you noticed that when we see photos of old village women in Southern and Eastern Europe it looks as though they all wear the same uniform? Longish black dresses, ankle-length black skirts with white blouses and gray/white hair, also long, gathered up in buns of different styles.

We are half-way through the Year of the Priest that our beloved Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed on June 19, 2009. He did not proclaim it to glorify priests or bishops or himself. He proclaimed it to ask for our prayers on behalf of those whom God had chosen as His priests, and to [...]

This is a true story narrated, by the most part, from Carla’s perspective, because she was my aunt, and I’d known her all of my life. She was the eighth of the ten surviving children of my mother’s parents, and she was different. First: along with their great love and knowledge of the Catholic Faith, [...]

The other day I was talking with a young mother. Although she was raised as a Catholic, she is no longer practicing her Faith, and her children have not been baptized. Yet, she still calls herself “Catholic.” She voluntarily brought up the question of her children’s Baptism, saying that she always intended to have her [...]

Those of us who are a few years more than 12 will remember Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. I was in Italy when his TV show was the most popular in the United States, but we heard of him; and he was on national TV, NOT on EWTN! Of course, today no one would dare give [...]