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"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."  - - St Francis de Sales (from Catholic Digest's Quiet ...

I was so grateful when  Bonnie Engstrom of "A Knotted Life"  (as part of her Advent series) asked me to write about Advent traditi...

This post is unofficially subtitled, if you don’t like photos in a post, you might just want to come back in a few days, after I share over ...

(Sharing great songs that are inspiring, uplifting and/or are otherwise "worth a listen") As I (over) shared last week , I...

Our intellects do not make the truth; they attain it; they discover it.  Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Religion without God. There are so many...

As I wrote about  previously , several local families were inspired by one mom to spearhead an effort to get one million people to pray the ...

This is the choice before us: either try to revolutionize the world and break under it or revolutionize ourselves and remake the world. Ar...

In this month of celebrating all things Fulton Sheen, I’m delighted to share a guest post today from a very young b...

God has promised men pardon if they are penitent, but not if they procrastinate. Fulton Sheen, Peace of Soul. There are so many great qu...

For a Catholic, to be anti-Semitic is to be un-Catholic. --Fulton Sheen, Love One Another.  There are so many great quotes from Fulton ...

A minor digression from our month celebrating Archbishop Sheen here at Reading Catholic.  I just discovered (because remember, no one tell...

Yesterday, in Part 1, I shared what happened before the Mass of Thansgiving. Today, Part 2  is all about the Mass itself at the Cathedral...

Here are my answers to the four questions I ask on the first of each month: first, what are you reading? what do you like best about it? ...

This month's featured "Reader" is a seminarian I met when our children attended the stellar summer program Totus Tuus .   I am...

Here are my answers to the four questions I ask on the first of each month: first, what are you reading? what do you like best about it?...

During my college years in the 1980s, I was a (nominal) cradle Catholic, and fairly immersed in the college culture of the time.  I was espe...

You may notice that the blog (and the book page in the print Catholic Post ),  has something of a sports theme going this month.  ...

Yesterday and today comprised the two-day Catholic Media Promotion Day(s?).  Last year I participated and listed some of my favorite online ...

Please visit this post on my new website.  You should click here to visit the entire post about our Betsy-Tacy pilgrimage. Warning!!! This...