I am finally becoming aware of the gift I have taken for granted all my life. The home we call Planet Earth. I suspect I am not alone in this.

’Doubting Thomas’ gets bad press. But in today’s post-truth world, full of fake news and disinformation, there is much we can learn from him”, says Rev. Peter Crumpler.

We know the Pope appreciates a good story. Maybe that is why a Capuchin preacher, speaking to the Pope, ended his profound reflection on the Eucharist with a story.

Do you remember learning to walk? Perhaps not. Yet, we were all once little children.

“How was your Easter?” How many times have you said that recently? Usually, it leads to a lively conversation about family gatherings, etc.

Some 60 years ago, I remember being struck by a question still relevant today.  A great theologian, Johannes Hoffinger, asked: “if we are Easter People, why do we so often look like people in need of an aspirin?”

Listening is more than waiting for a chance to respond or rebut the other.

It occurs to me that there are two approaches to problem-solving. – “Whack-a-mole” and “Big Picture.”

In my active years of helping families, I often heard two seemingly contradictory thoughts about parents in “real families.”

This title of Mary Mother of the Church takes us beyond the magnificent privilege of her being chosen as the mother of Jesus.