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Several weeks ago, I was invited on short notice to help “fill a table” at a benefit dinner. The theme of the evening was the Roaring...

(Photo: Jill Dimond / Unsplash) Well, I still haven’t mastered the art of writing columns AHEAD of major Catholic feasts and observances....

(Photo: Jackson David / Unsplash) Have you ever encountered a situation where your response was…well, weird? Where you could see that you...

(Photo: Chris Liverani / Unsplash) Have you ever prayed and wondered if God actually hears you? Have you ever felt like you aren’t...

Photo by Gera Juarez | Cathopic When I was a kid, my parents had a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus prominently displayed on their...

Hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators tried to block a monthly pro-life march and prayer vigil at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic...

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the altar during Mass in 2021. (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco) What would...

(Photo: Jonathan Sanchez / Unsplash) So, you say you are pro-choice. But you also say that you are appalled to hear that several states,...

(Photo: Adobe Stock, edited) There are disadvantages to writing a monthly column in a 24 hour news cycle world. By the time my time rolls...

Assumption of the Virgin, Corregio, ca. 1526-1530. Well, I was typing on my phone during Mass again last Sunday. My fellow parishioners...

Paradiso, Gustave Dore, 1868. As I write this, we are on the eve of the first anniversary of my mother’s death. The last in a year of...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Have you ever googled “percentage of people who dread the holidays”? It’s kind of fascinating. The numbers range,...

Photo by Keith Allison on Wikicommons via Flickr So Aaron Rodgers is in trouble. Back in August, he was asked by reporters if he had...

Close-up of a mausoleum at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Wheat Ridge. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) I’ve been telling you that...

Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash I spent some time the other day in the ongoing task of sorting through all of Mom’s stuff. So. Much....

Photo by Timon Studler on Unsplash I’m a real estate agent. So I drive, a lot. Because I spend so much time in the car, I try to spend it...

(Photo: Simeon Muller / Unsplash) I love my hair stylist. She’s a devoted Christian. So, when I see her, we tend to have much deeper...

Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash Last month was my Mom’s 89th birthday. And the three-month anniversary of her death. I have written...

Image by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash First of all, I want to thank you all for the tremendous outpouring of support we have received in...

We buried my Mom last month. In the summer of last year, I first drove her to her new memory care facility. My heart was breaking. She...