As the war in Viet Nam was ending, newsman Bob Considine accompanied a baby orphan girl from Viet Nam to the U.S. so she could be adopted. On the long…

For years I’ve thought about writing a book entitled: “Catholicism Made Simple.” There are so many of these “Made Simple” books on the market, on everything from computers to auto mechanics. So…

When I was first ordained there was a divorced woman in the parish named Gretchen. She had just gotten remarried in court without a Church annulment. But she continued to…

A well-to-do family built a huge home next to the Amish community in Indiana. The Amish were standing there looking on in astonishment as the movers were unloading the snow…

In the seminary when we had to do practice preaching, I used to get super-uptight. I remember one time I had to get up in front of my classmates and…

Have you ever stood somewhere at night where it was perfectly dark all around you? You looked up into the sky and your jaw dropped in amazement at the wonder…

This time of year young children in school make snowflake cutouts and post them on classroom and hallway walls. Snowflakes have always been seen as wonderful symbols of purity, symmetry…

A “Hail Mary Pass” is a term we are hearing more and more of in football games. It is late in the 4th Quarter, a team is losing and they have a…

A young man in Junior High school and his father were alone together on a fishing trip. Out of the clear blue the son asked: “Dad, what is the toughest thing God…

One Saturday morning a mother was having breakfast with her young son in the kitchen. She was wearing an old pair of slacks and a tattered sweatshirt. She hadn’t put…