Never Give Up

It has become the custom of this blog to post, on this great Feast Day, two excerpts from the original account of the events of Decembe...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to two amazing, outstanding women, my own incredible wonderful wife Eileen Janaro, and the tremendous human being who...

It's particularly hard to be a parent in the secularist culture of the Western world today. But Eileen and I have been blessed to be s...

Many years ago, when I was a graduate student living in Texas, I used to meet on Saturday mornings with a church group. We would pray the...

Relationships are fundamental to the identity of the human person. Each of us is made to love and to be loved, and this reality is inscri...

John Paul at maybe three or four months old. So do you have a little baby in the house? On June 1, 1997 we had our first little baby at ...

The Servant of God Oscar Romero On the evening of March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot and killed as he began the offertory ...

We had a happy celebration of John Paul's 15th birthday. He also celebrated the last day of school at Chelsea Academy, where he had an...

What can I say to reflect on the events of this day, and on the meaning of the profound and pervasive violence that afflicts our culture? ...

Well, the weekend is over and Eileen is back in Baltimore. We had a nice (inexpensive) dinner and a walk down Main Street in the twilight to...

I hope everyone had a Happy Mothers Day. We certainly did. There is a happy Mommy with some of her girls (and, yes, "Uncle Walter"...

Tonight I am going to post, as my own blog entry, a comment I made on someone else's blog. This is someone who writes for the NCRegister...

There is much discussion about the social problems that plague our country today. Good Catholics that I know tend to agree on social issues...

I think today's blog will be about Josefina. She is my youngest daughter, aged four, but she is a very special kind of child who has ...