BLOGS

One Saturday morning, my friend Tom and I were having breakfast in a restaurant. A man with no legs and in a wheelchair rolled by our table. “Tom, do you think he was born that way?” I leaned toward my friend and asked. “I don’t think so. I believe the man used to...

“Experiencing chronic loneliness can significantly elevate a person’s likelihood of considering suicide due to feelings of isolation,” researchers say. What is responsible for the increase in loneliness in our society? “Globalization and increase in technology,” some...

One day a group from a local chapter of the Mensa society had its monthly meeting in a restaurant. Mensa is the world’s largest, oldest and most famous high-IQ society – a thriving global community of 150,000 highly intelligent people. Only those who have an...

I am grateful to God for having granted me the privilege of serving as Columbus diocesan director for the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States. I had to leave the job to become a 24/7 caregiver for my wife, who is bedridden after having a stroke. The...

This scene in the movie “The Passion of Christ” is forever engraved in my memory. As Jesus fell beneath the weight of the heavy cross on his way to Calvary, Mary ran towards Jesus and Jesus looked at His mother, saying, “Behold, I will make things new!” I wonder how...

“There must have been important people on that plane,” a TV commentator said after the first plane hit one of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. I know exactly what he meant. But when we think about it, all the passengers were important...

A taxi driver and a priest died at the same time. St. Peter welcomed both with open arms at the reception desk, then took them for a tour of heaven. At some point, they arrived in front of a big, beautiful mansion. “This is your place to live,” Peter told the taxi...