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.
What follows is drawn from two sources: a household journal kept by the Baranski family of Kraków between 1863 and 1921, and a deposition taken in 1922 from Anna Baranska, regarding the disposition of certain materials in her custody following their transfer to a new keeper.
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.
He had been composing his reply to Aldric for six days without sending it.
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.
Two Lamps, Issue 14: Blessed Michael McGivney and Saint Cajetan of Thiene, the basement meeting room at St. Mary's Church, New Haven, Connecticut, the evening of October 2, 1881
What follows is drawn from a manuscript in the Alton library, catalogued by Teodor Maren as: partial treatise, Latin, late thirteenth century, provenance uncertain, notation confirmed.
How we pray shapes what we believe shapes how we live
Last week I wrote about the two ways honest people answer the identity question wrong - the role trap and the wound trap. A lot of you wrote back. Some of you s
