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Truth be told, I’m not. I usually dig out the Advent wreath well after Thanksgiving and the start of Advent, and we don’t light it every day...

Happy Feast of All Saints!   Be sure to celebrate in style this great feast of the Church. I'm interrupting my marathon story (here a...

Normally, I share here great songs that are inspiring, uplifting and/or are otherwise "worth a listen."  Today, it's this vide...

Here are my "Little Flower" answers to the four questions I ask on the first of each month: first, what are you reading? what d...

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...

The Mass of Thanksgiving for Archbishop Sheen  was truly amazing, and I'm putting together several posts about the Mass itself, replete ...

Worth a Listen (a new feature: sharing great songs that are inspiring, uplifting and/or are otherwise "worth a listen") My oldes...

This month on Reading Catholic, I am determined to share some of the great recent resoures on human sexuality out there.  This will include...

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...

In my occasional series of highlighting great picture books that are worth "having," not just reading, here's another "gr...

Here is my column that appears in this weekend's print Catholic Post.    I write in my review how I liked it because I'm a runner...

I found this trailer for The Temperament God Gave Your Kids,  one of the books reviewed in my Catholic Post column this month, very endearin...

Following is my monthly column that appears in the print Catholic Post .  I invite your feedback here, or elsewhere online.  In ...

Rest in peace, Maurice Sendak. Our family has a long association with Maurice Sendak, children's book author and illustrator.  In my c...

This isn't a regular feature here, but really should be: great Catholic books for kids.  I am especially interested in books that are gr...