In 1979 I received my First Communion and, as a communion gift, my first Bible, The Illustrated Children’s Bible. I…
Wednesday, November 21. I drove eleven hours through the Megalopolis of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. It…
“Absolute power,” Lord Acton wrote, “corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Good and bad can be…
“Anyone who is so ‘progressive’ as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God” (2…
“Receive the Word of God not as the word of men, but as it truly is: the Word of God”…
The year was 1967. The Summer of Love. Across America young people adopted a new way of living: “turning on, tuning in,…
First he heard the bells. Sunday afternoon, mid-1920s, Blessed Sacrament Parish, the Bronx. The altar boy rang them during Benediction…
THE FACT IS … After college I landed a job as a reporter. “Meatball journalism”—four or five stories daily—was the…
VESSELS OF GRACE In the 1970s Billy Joel wrote a hit song, “Only the Good Die Young.” The lyrics…
Imagine this. A religious leader—his name is Jairus—has just received the worst news that any parent could hear: “Your daughter…