People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up your ideals, wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old…

Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130…

A lady owned a canary which she greatly valued and to which she was affectionately devoted because it sang so beautifully. Mellow and trilling were the cheery notes with which…

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the best-known scientists in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for his contribution to the development of quantum…

So much of our country has had some severe snowstorms over the last couple of weeks. My hometown of Chicago has had its share of snow.  I recall that the…

Fr. John Cusick was in the seminary class behind me at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein Illinois. John is as great an individual and as fine a…

Mitch Albom wrote his best-selling book, Tuesday's with Morrie, about the things he learned from his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, in the weeks leading up to his death.  On one of…

There was a fairly rich young man who was taken to the hospital, critically ill with the COVID-19 virus. His condition worsened, and he was confined there for a couple of…

Profanity is rapidly replacing English as the language of the American people. It is truly saddening to hear those around us punctuate sentences, clauses and even phrases with four-letter words.…