In the News

This past Sunday we celebrated Christ the King, the end of the Church year. Next week is the first week of Advent, and the start of the new Church year. For anyone that has been to Mass the past few weeks may have noticed that the reading all had something to do with the end [...]

The Church and the Public Square

The past month or so I have been asked or confronted with the statements about the Catholic faith. Most often from Catholics themselves. The questions range from the very basic to the very deep and for the most part the statements have almost always been anti-conservatism or pro-liberalism if you like. Me I look at [...]

Burn Baby Burn!

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. — Mother Teresa
Simple logic, add oil to keep the flame. Oil is the food that feeds the fire. Same basic principle for an electric light, we must have electrical current for a light bulb to glow. The electricity is the fuel that [...]

The ultimate Comfort Food

Fall has seem to hit Michigan over the past week or so, this morning on my way in to work it was 46 degrees, that’s a tad bit chilly for an August morning.
Well so  much for global warming….
I love the cooler weather, I love to sit in my house with all the windows open [...]

That Boy

It is the small things that we do that will have the greatest effect on others. The Gospel story from this past weekend proved that:
Gospel Jn 6:1-15 Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw [...]

9 out of 10

9 out of 10, that’s a pretty good percentage, don’t you think? I would be happy with that percentage, if lets say it represented the percentage of Catholics who attended Mass  every week, or lets say it was the percentage of the population who donated to end poverty or what if it represented the amount [...]

A Friend at Easter

Easter is almost here, just a few short days… The week leading up to Easter, Holy Week, is a crazy week. I have a friend who works for the Church, well actually I have a few who do but I am referring to just one good friend of mine for this blog. She is the [...]

Priest, Profit and King

A a minister with in the Catholic Church I am charged with teaching the truths of the Church, proclaiming the good news of the Gospels and imparting the moral code that the Church has given us. In truth as a Catholic, regardless if I’m a minister or not I am charged with the same.
We are [...]

Seed Sowers

I read an interesting article this weekend in a magazine called yes!, just to give you a little back ground I ordered a free sample of this liberal magazine, I like to read all sorts of stuff, you never know what you will learn. Anyway back to the topic of this blog, the article I [...]

How do you know?

Today as I was driving in to work I was listening to one of the CD’s I have concerning the Catholic Faith. This particular CD was on the Eucharist and the true presence of Jesus in. The presenter asked the question “Do you believe that Jesus is God?” seems like a simple question really, I [...]