Never Give Up

September 14th — Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Did I say “the house is always quiet” these days? That’s not really true. We see our two granddaughters on Sundays and during the week too. ...

" How splendidly the flowers are blooming on this railroad embankment! As if all had assembled so that no color should be missing, they...

September 5th was the feast day of Mother Teresa, who died on that day in 1997. Those of my generation remember her astonishing presence in ...

Here is Pope Leo’s Instagram post from Wednesday, September 3, 2025:

September always brings complicated and strange feelings even after all these years. It has been a long time since the year 2008 (when I ...

Goodbye August 2025.

In our society we're supposed to have things "under control" in our lives if we are responsible and mature adults. But let...

Saint Augustine. There's no end to what we could say about him. I want to refer to one of the many things about him that has always fasc...

What is “happiness”?  We live in a society that claims that the "real world" is confined to its material elements, and that the ul...

Pope Leo XIV has invited us to observe today (Friday, August 22) as a day of fasting and prayer for peace. Today is the “Octave” of the feas...

“ Are you troubled? Think but of Jesus, speak but the name of Jesus, the clouds disperse, and peace descends anew from heaven. Have you fall...

It’s been a wet August, though not especially hot. Here are a bunch of “scenes” that I have worked up with digital art tools in recent weeks...

"Only together, only by becoming a single Body in which even the most fragile participate with full dignity, are we the Body of Christ,...

Here is a selection from Pope Leo's homily on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Nothing I write could come clo...

Today is the feast of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. He taught us to praise and love God always, to conquer indifference, to give ourselves in lovi...

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belon...

Here is some digital artwork for the month of August. It seems that a "Fall" semester begins in a couple of weeks. But August 2025...

We remember many persons and many moments in these dramatic days of August. We mourn the past with an unconditional sorrow, while we also re...

August 8 is the feast of Saint Dominic. “Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes,” said Saint ...

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture...