Join Fr. Bill McNeeley and me for a 12 session class on marriage and family entitled “First Comes Love” based on the book of that name by… Read more “First Comes Love”

14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part 14”

Here is my article from the Knoxville New Sentinel, January 4, 2013. It was published five years ago last month, but it’s a topic that’s always on topic.… Read more “The Domestic Church”

Two recent Congressional votes, one in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate, revealed a lot about the extreme position the Democratic Party has adopted… Read more “Democrat Extremism on Abortion”

If the government is forbidden from funding projects that promote religion, why is the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) allowed to fund a project that directly… Read more ““Jerry Springer, the Opera”: Your Tax Dollars at Work”

This is a long post, but it’s an important one. Grab a sandwich. A new study released by St. Mary’s Press in collaboration with Georgetown University’s Center… Read more ““Going, Going, Gone” Study on Why Young Catholics Leave the Church”

13. All are called to belong to the new people of God. Wherefore this people, while remaining one and only one, is to be spread throughout the… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part 13”

I’ve written before about the threat to CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, because Congress for months failed to hash out a deal that would secure its… Read more “Congress Comes Through on Funding for CHIP … Finally!”

There’s been a great deal of news on the immigration front of late. Happily, the government shutdown lasted only three days, as many Democrats quickly abandoned ship… Read more “Hope For Progress on Immigration?”

Today, January 25, is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. From The Acts of the Apostles 9:1-9: Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the… Read more “The Conversion of St. Paul”