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    Across southwestern Kansas back in the mid-1960s, several rock bands played the small towns’ school gyms and National Guard Armories. Their names make you smile: The Blue Things, The Fabulous Flippers, King Midas and the Mufflers, The Rising Suns, The Sensational... Read More →

  This reflection was originally posted on October 21, 2024.  ___________________________________________________ Sometimes it is difficult to know how to pray, and we are helped by the words of others. The following is a prayer for the vulnerable, particularly the unborn,... Read More →

  Later this week, Catholics and many Protestants will celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, and you may hear these readings from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know … what is the surpassing greatness of [God’s]... Read More →

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all... Read More →

    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that guide our secular society. While... Read More →

  At my New York high school in the 1970s, Brother Andrew would tell a joke to incoming freshmen: “I used to know a little Greek  . . .  but he died.” As street-smart teens, we rolled our eyes, but he knew better than we did. At class reunions, even 50 years on, we all... Read More →

  For prolifers and everyone else, telling the truth is much harder than finding fault. Academia, for example, is filled with brilliant insights, but they are diluted with banal critiques of other professors. Religious and political hypocrisy is so common that even to... Read More →

    It is typical of human nature, that when people meet with something unexpected, they tend to suspect the worst. A man and his wife come home from a trip and find their back door unlocked. They suspect a robbery. But then they find one of their children, who know... Read More →

  It was a sweltering summer day. After graduating from college, then teaching for a year in a public school, he was finally able to have a block of time to do some long-delayed reading. Sitting in a lawn chair in the back yard and getting some sun, he dug into an... Read More →

    The gift of life has a paradoxical heart, in that the lives we have been given are, every one, mortal lives. I speak here as a Christian: to be a witness to life entails witnessing to mortal life, life that ends in the sadness and pain of death. Nonetheless, at a... Read More →