Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew issued a joint statement calling on all people to pray for the protection and responsible use of creation and calling on… Read more “Pope and Patriarch Call on All to “Hear the Cry of the Earth””

Seeing the images coming out of southeast Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey are harrowing. The dangers these people are facing and the heroism displayed by… Read more “What Texas Is Telling Us About Ourselves”

EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD FROM EXPERIENCE: BEAUTY           As humans, we experience that some things are beautiful. While driving through western… Read more “God Is: An Introduction to the Evidence for the Existence of God, Part 26”

Today, August 28, is the Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop and Doctor of the Church. Fr. William A. Jurgens, esteemed Church historian and editor of… Read more “St. Augustine of Hippo”

Were today, August 27, 2017, not the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary time, it would be the Feast of St. Monica, the saintly mother of St. Augustine of… Read more “St. Monica”

There are two stories of great interest and import in the Knoxville News Sentinel this Sunday morning. On the front page is a story about the opioid epidemic in… Read more “Our Misplaced Priorities”

By now, many of you have read of the Catholic priest of the Diocese of Arlington who wrote an article in the Arlington Catholic Herald where he revealed his… Read more “Our Hope Is in Christ’s Mercy”

“O Jesus, eternal Truth, strengthen my feeble forces; You can do all things, Lord. I know that without You all my efforts are in vain. O Jesus,… Read more “O Jesus, Eternal Truth”

I am not a victim. I come from a family that was terribly dysfunctional. Some or all of us endured poverty, public housing and food stamps, teenage… Read more “Our Shallow Social Justice”

THE CATHOLIC LETTERS          James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2 and 3 John and Jude are called the “Catholic Epistles” or the “Catholic Letters.” This is… Read more “The Catholic Letters”