The defense of life is the subject of a 30-second television ad that was aired on Chicago based Black Entertainment Television during Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. Produced by CatholicVote.org, a project of the Fidelis Center for Law and Policy, the ad features an ultra-sound image, interspersed with text saying: “This child’s future is a broken ...read more

Quite often I get comments from people about the state of marriage in our society – with one in two marriages ending in divorce and teenage pregnancy rates up for the first time in 15 years. It seems that sexual immorality, adultery, and abortion are becoming more and more prevalent. People are concerned. As a ...read more

My mind was already on air travel when news broke of “the Miracle on the Hudson”–last Thursday’s casualty-free crash of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. In my quest for a cheap ticket for Rome, I had been searching the airline’s website that morning. According to one source, the odds of dying in an plane accident are ...read more

Winston Churchill once said “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” I recently read about a fascinating social experiment which seemed to confirm Churchill’s cynicism. On a cold January morning a man sat at a metro station in Washington DC, at ...read more

Last Friday, soon after arriving in Nashville, Fr. Thomas Rosica and I had the tremendous pleasure of screening the documentary Beloved: The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia before an audience for the FIRST TIME! Around 50 novitiate sisters and 32 vocation visitors were there, and I couldn’t believe their reactions – their laughter, their tears, ...read more

As heard on Zoom, this Sunday marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The overall theme is “That they may become one in your hand,” Ezekiel 37:17. Interestingly, according to a note from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity the reflection and prayers for the week are: “rooted in the ...read more

As Christians our faith presupposes belief in miracles; Christ healed the sick, transformed water into wine, and was raised from the dead. While miracles may not be as obvious as they were when Christ walked on earth they are still occurring and sometimes all it takes is to ask. This Thursday January 15 at 7:00 ...read more

When you put the sugar in your coffee this morning, did you stop to think about where that sugar came from? I know I certainly never would have. Recently, however, I picked up a book by Elizabeth Abbott, a Toronto based writer. Her book Sugar: A Bittersweet History had me thinking twice, even three times, ...read more

I invite you to join us for the season finale of The World I Know as we look at Love. Love is such an over-used word in our society. We love pizza, we love our dog, we love Brad Pitt, we love rock music, and we love our best friend! In the first segment of ...read more

Though Mexico City does seem appealing this time of year, attending the 6th World Meeting of Families just isn’t possible for most of us (especially those with children). Nevertheless, the Church’s Apostolic Penitentiary announced on Saturday that you will receive a plenary indulgence if you participate from afar. How? The Plenary Indulgence may be obtained ...read more