Never Give Up

I hope I'm not the only one getting "life coaching" from Facebook. Why don't y'all just be a social media platfo...

One thing I can do on this blog right now is represent some fun "Oldies"  that pop up in places like Timehop . The Never Give Up ...

Soon after posting about the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, I remembered a reflection I had written that recently appe...

We have another date to mark in our Centennial of Infamy:  February 21, 1916 (the English newspaper reports first appeared a hundred yea...

I've been having a hard time over the past month. A very hard time. Please pray for me. This blog may slow down for awhile. I don...

Some things seem always the same. Thirty years ago, I commuted between the Valley and Washington DC, where I had just begun graduate st...

If you're still looking for some good resources for living this extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy ,  it's not too late to get a...

Pope Francis prays before Nuestra Se ñ ora de Guadalupe  at her Basilica in Mexico, at the center of the land that stretches from Alask...

Pope Francis is in Mexico after his historic meeting with Moscow Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church (more on this historic mee...

What are we, O Lord? Five loaves and two fish. Take us, Lord, and make us new according to the measure of Your love.

Pope Francis spoke by teleconference with Mexicans preparing for his upcoming trip to their country. There are many important elemen...

The pictures really say it all: Mountains of snow have been reduced to ... well, that , along with lots of soggy ground: Meanw...

In this Jubilee Year of Mercy , we Catholic Christians are encouraged to meditate especially on the mercy of God, to receive His mercy th...

Byzantine style icon of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple  of Jerusalem forty days after his birth, according to the Law. Happy...

The second reading from today's liturgy is the famous chapter 13 of Saint Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Even Catholic C...

January 29th marked five years  of blogging. I know that I tend to say the same things over and over again. I've always been repet...

Jesus has come into my life and taken hold of me. He has rescued me from slavery to sin, given me new life, and made me a child of God. Y...

Things have been a little nutty around here. We've had plenty of indoor time and some silliness has ensued. I wanted to try out some so...

Our mild winter was strangely interrupted by The Snow Monster, or — as it has been variously called — SNOWZILLA,  SNOWPOCALYPSE, SNOWMAGEDD...

As the United States of America honors the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., I present a few texts from many of Dr. King's sermons a...