Catholic Men of Delmarva By Ed RobertsCatholic Men of Delmarva What does it mean to be a man in a world that often confuses strength with self-assertion and freedom with self-will? For the Catholic man, authentic masculinity begins not with power, image, or control, but with surrender to God. It is the courage to say […]
A young man prays during a Labor Day Mass on Sept. 6, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. The Mass organized by the Catholic Labor Network included parishioners, workers and representatives of organized labor. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard) In early October, my newest book, “Staying Sober One Story […]
I wonder where I’ve been all this time, as I didn’t know Archbishop Fulton Sheen until relatively recently. It wasn’t until I arrived in Chicago in 2019 that his name began to ring a bell. One evening, while browsing YouTube for material for my parish ministry, I came across a video from the 1950s in […]
In the picture her mom sent, my 5-year-old granddaughter is staring wide-eyed at the praying mantis she has just discovered on the back of her chair at breakfast. Alice loves bugs. She has a box full of dead bees and cicadas she has found in her yard. In my humble opinion, a live cicada is […]
New York firefighters and rescue workers are seen Sept. 11, 2001, carrying Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York Fire Department, who died while giving last rites to a firefighter following terrorist attacks that would soon bring down the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism […]
Elizabeth Scalia “Bad times, hard times, … We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times” (Sermon 30, St Augustine). In my youth I knew a mother who played cruel “jokes” on babies. With a little one seated on her lap, she would temptingly show a biscuit or a candy, and — […]
Greg Erlandson I wonder if you can tell the age of a person by the number of dead people’s phone numbers he still has saved on his phone? It could be like judging the age of a tree by the rings on its core. A young person may have only a few. I feel like […]