A recent challenge to religious freedom can be found in Foothills Christian Ministries v. Johnson. At issue were regulations implementing California’s Child Day Care Act, which, in requiring all centers to be licensed, obligates their officials to inform parents and guardians that […]

From time immemorial, the heart has been the organ of the divine. While the head processes information, the heart gives life to the body by sending blood to every cell that needs nourishment, just as […]

Our Blessed Mother constantly looks out for us, even when we aren’t thinking about her. I was reminded of this fact recently when I chanced upon Mary under the title of Our Lady of Charity. […]

My father was a physical therapist. His funeral was well attended, with several hundred people, including a significant percentage of whom I had never met, his patients over thirty-five years practicing in our native northern […]

Colorado celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as the rest of the country marks 250 years since the founding of the United States. The two milestones bear an interesting connection. In the very year […]

Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts […]

The Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ […]