A couple years ago, a Franciscan friar in my community, Fr. Carl, built and mounted a number of bird houses on the property of our St. Anthony Shrine. The birdhouses are nicely constructed of cedar and are the exact type suited for bluebirds. Because there were no bluebirds around the shrine property, we...
It’s been about six week since my grandfather died, and little by little, I’ve been finding some peace.
The night I received the phone call from my mom, though, I felt a sense of panic that I wasn’t used to. It wasn’t grief initially, but fear. I was gripped with near-terror over...
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Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, the author of several books on spirituality and president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, also writes a column syndicated in many diocesan newspapers (ronrolheiser.com).
I remember one of his columns last year identified 10 major challenges to faith...
I just saw an article on the blog of Publisher’s Weekly, a national book-industry publication, asking the question about the first book that made us fall in love with reading.
For me, books like Profiles in Courage by JFK, Homer Price about a doughnut-making machine, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Five...
Spring sports. Anyone who knows me well knows that the only sporting functions I like to attend are only those in which my kids are playing. And even though all my children are now young adults, two of my sons are still active in sports. And I am still their biggest fan.
Last Friday Cory came home with a...
