It’s almost Mother’s day, and soon time to plant the vegetable garden! I believe gardening is good for the soul. It’s been man’s work...

nefelibata (n.) lit. "cloud walker"; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams, or one who does not obey the...

I cannot speak for all millennials when it comes to specific beliefs and lifestyles, but I can speak of three pretty universal desires...

This Lent, I have been reflecting upon the 40 days of fasting that Our Lord did, as well as the Sorrowful Mysteries. With these...

Something occurred to me the other day after getting ashes. Even when we think we have outsmarted Catholicism, even when we think we have...

As a father of a son attending kindergarten and a four-month old baby daughter, teaching the Faith is a gradual process. While Mass is...

I like to think of myself as a planner. Not only do I love to watch my calendar fill up in color-coded “busy” dots, and to edit “penciled...

As we begin the season of Advent, we focus on waiting well throughout the many seasons of life. I want to be a child again. I want to...

I started ballroom dancing lessons during my first semester at Franciscan University. Coincidentally, my parents began taking lessons...

A few times some friends and I have gone out to feed the hungry. There were two different ways we would go to them. We either went to a...

This weekend I watched the movie Antman (great movie, if you haven’t seen it yet!). In one of the scenes where Luis is driving his friend...

Part of the reason we hesitate to evangelize sometimes, I believe, is that we can't find our part in the story. What story? My point...

Sometimes there is no horizon. Sometimes I'm just stuck in a dark room with four bare walls. Also, sometimes the help that comes doesn't...

Changing the way people think isn't always a good thing. Sometimes I try to do it just for fun, only to find out that the common way of...

Several weeks ago, relishing the graceful winds of summer’s last warm breath, I went hiking with a few friends to a quiet wooded retreat...