Lt. Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions. -Lt. Lipton, Band of Brothers In my high school and college days, I didn’t do much.  I rarely made plans further than a week in advance for fear that something else might cause a conflict  (I’m pretty sure that there are “random” weekends that are universally busier than others, possibly because of...

In one of my periods of unemployment, I found a minimum wage job working at a 500 acre plant nursery. Having graduated within the last year from Benedictine College, I considered myself underemployed. My boss lacked people skills, but I worked with a very pleasant black woman in her forties who possessed a very simple and steadfast faith. She quietly sang gospel music while she worked, which inspired me to pray constantly. I started reading...

Obama may not be the Anti-Christ not because he isn't bad enough, but because he pushes too much evil too quickly.

I think most of us have a favorite book that is not only wonderful in content, it’s also lovely to look at. Mine is History of Political Philosophy, edited by Strauss. It has a fabulous black and purple cover and it came out the year I was born which makes it even more special. It’s full of essays on all of the great political philosophers from Thucydides to St. Thomas Aquinas to Edmund Burke. I tend to turn to this book...

Many times Christians get in arguments with others who may fall a bit short when it comes to logical rigor. So, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy (who?) and to Micah… You might be illogical if: You believe the phrase “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true. You think the phrase “truth is relative” is true for everybody. You are intolerant of intolerant people, prejudiced against prejudiced people, hate...

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. ~Morpheus, The Matrix   Last week, my wife and I attended a dinner meeting to discuss plans for a new approach to marriage prep for our diocese (or at least my...

Most pro-lifers probably ran across this story from LifeSiteNews.com: Vogue model Christy Turlington Burns and a host of female celebrities are encouraging mothers across the nation to ignore their children as part of “No Mother’s Day,” a sign of their support for reducing maternal mortality by supporting family planning and global access to abortion. (Scene: kitchen table on No Mother’s Day morning. Billy sits down to...

I was taking a nap on the couch yesterday as a result of a sudden exhaustion undoubtedly brought about by late night baby feedings, early morning jogs and Louisiana’s warm, afternoon sun.  My unconsciousness was stirred by my 2-year-old son, lightly patting my shoulder.  Rolling over to face him, I said, “What’s going on, bud?” His personal variation of ‘here it is’ was the response. ...

Here I was all ready to bloviate about Obama’s “conversion” on same-sex marriage, and how his supporters are amping up the hateful rhetoric against the haters who hate homosexuals. But then the Letter to Diognetus comes to the rescue in Wednesday’s Office of Readings: And yet there is something extraordinary about [the lives of Christians]. They live in their own countries as though they were only passing through....

Most of us have been there, either in personal experience or by way of second hand accounts: Boy meets girl. Boy and girl start spending lots of time together, exchanging emotional truths and laughs, and growing exceedingly close to one another… but they’re not dating.  One desires the friendship to become a romantic relationship while the other seems to be content in the friendship stage, but is keeping his or her cards close...