Home Page

My lifelong study, reflection, and prayer on the mystery of Christ’s suffering and death has taught me one thing: Jesus rejected violence in any form for whatever reason. Pope John Paul II has taught that the just war is a practical impossibility in our modern world. As Jesus did and taught, so great men such as Ghandi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have preached non-violence.

  In memory of the many victims of abortion, I’m joining other pro-life bloggers in not blogging on Friday, Jan. 25.  Somtimes when we feel powerless, there is really only one thing we can do. We can pray. And the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is offering a beautiful novena to mark the 40th anniversary of Roe

  Three years ago today Jimmy and Lisa Murphy met their son, Daniel, in China. Just months after they adopted him, they took him to the hospital for open-heart surgery. Sadly, his body never recovered from the surgery, and he passed away at only 2 ½ years old. Lisa shares the family’s

Albert Einstein once said: “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Today, social media and social networking is king. They are the lifeblood of connection for people all over the globe.  Einstein would call them “anti-social.” And, I think he

Times have changed since my days in grade school in a Chicago suburb. Back then, our school was staffed by about a dozen nuns and a similar number of lay teachers. The parish was staffed by three or four priests at a time, including the one primarily assigned to ministry at the hospital within the parish boundaries.

Last weekend was beautiful, particularly mild for mid-to-late January. The sun was shining, the sky was a brilliant blue and the blast of frigid air had not yet traveled east.  I took advantage of the nice weather Sunday afternoon – before the Ravens game, of course – and went for a

  As a mother of two boys who are 25 months apart, I feel for Jackie Harbaugh. We have an ongoing discussion in our house—who gets the bigger piece of watermelon, who gets more noodles in his soup, and which one gets to climb into the car first. I try to remain impartial,