Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
The most common thing Catholics get wrong about dying is believing the Church requires them to endure everything medicine can do. It does not, and it never has. What is actually permitted, and what to do about it this week.
The law that takes effect in Illinois today passed at two in the morning on Halloween, by the narrowest possible margin, inside a bill about food safety.
On the quiet majority, the parish, and where healing actually starts
Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.
Last week I promised a new offering would open for booking today. It isn't. Here's the decision behind the delay - and why the delay is itself the essay.
Granite City has lived next to industry for 130 years. Data centers are the industrial technology of our era, and we already know how to do this - if we're willing to negotiate instead of refuse.
How we pray shapes what we believe shapes how we live