On September 22, 1290 Bilbo Baggins was born. The year given for his birth, of course, is in Shire Reckoning:…
Author Mary Kochan
School has begun and it is only a matter of time before what has become the perennially vexing problem of…
We are supposed to love the Catholic Church. After all, Christ is in love with her. She is his bride.…
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest…
Today is the Feast of St. Luke the evangelist. Luke was a native of Antioch and unlike the other New…
Depression. A dictionary or thesaurus gives us some striking synonyms: a hollow, a cavity, a sinkhole. It is where something…
I celebrate my 21st Easter this year, 2015. For the first 38 years of my life I did not celebrate Easter…
With our attention upon St. Joseph today, it might be good to look back at the Old Testament figure for whom…
Men, you are being bombarded with advertising telling you that your wife would love to have a Teddy Bear for…
Sometimes new parents will half jokingly complain that their precious new charge did not “come with an instruction manual”. They…