May 14, 2020
12 Keys to a Sacramental Marriage
After 35 years of marriage, we look back and see clearly how the wisdom of others has shaped us. We have benefited from many stakeholders who opened their lives to us to witness their love through good, bad, fun, tragic holy times.
50 Hours with God
To speak of death aloud would have been a betrayal to our mother. Instead, by way of tacit agreement, an unspoken understanding developed among us an agreement that occasionally prompted us to make secretive and worried eye contact in a ...
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As God Is My Witness: The Catholic Roots of ‘Gone with the Wind’
Margaret Mitchell, the Atlanta-born author of Gone with the Wind, relied on her Catholic upbringing when she wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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From Widow’s Grief to New Life
Mired in grief over the loss of her husband, this college professor found a kindred spirit in another widow: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
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Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on ‘The Way’
The Way is a film about a father who completes the 500-mile pilgrimage his son had begun. It’s a story of broken individuals on the way to recovery.
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The Way of the Cross…on Your Block!
The Holy Spirit inspired me to combine spiritual meditation with physical exercise by envisioning the Stations of the Cross in my neighborhood. I walk approximately 10 blocks with stops at places that suggest the 14 locations associated with the Passion ...
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Hagia Sophia: A Rich and Holy History
Hagia Sophia is one of the four largest domed buildings in the world and it radiated Catholic celebration for 900 years. Yet most American Catholics were unaware of its existence until Pope Benedict XVI visited it on November 30, 2006.
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