The vacation season is an opportunity to escape TwitterWorld and do some serious reading. These books will help make your summer enjoyable, instructive, or both.

You might think that a blogger who is on vacation all week would have time to write a blog almost every day. In fact, I thought that myself.

At times, we question why God places us with certain people: how did he pick that cabbage-head boyfriend, or that annoying neighbor who constantly causes drama along the street?

Maybe, I find myself realizing, we all long to understand time better so we can know how to make better use of it.

Our culture is hard on faith. In the name of freedom of choice, we are arguably becoming one of the least free societies.

If 1968 was one of the worst years possible for “Humanae Vitae” to be heard, then 2018 may be one of the best. Let the conversation begin.

The peaches are ripe! Run, run, run to your nearest grocery store or farmers market and buy some peaches to make a Baltimore peach cake.

What might American Catholics learn in the year 2018 from the first important Catholic politician in the English-speaking portion of the future United States?

“Do you want these left out of the bag?” the cashier says, holding up two bottles of water.
“That would be great,” I say. “We need those for the flowers. We’re stopping at the cemetery.”

I believe God created dogs so he could be with us more. He has gifted us with these marvelously loving animals, which are emotional, expressive and tail-waggingly happy, and placed them in our homes.