On January 22, 2026 John Allen Jr. passed away in Rome at the age of 61. John was a journalist for the National Catholic Reporter and the founding editor-in-chief of…
As Jesus preached his Sermon on the Mount, he turned to his disciples and said in today’s Gospel, “You are the salt of the earth” (Matt. 5:13-16). Salt, in New Testament times, was seen as…
“Jimmy, why are you sitting there all alone?” “Nobody wants to play with me. They always fight with me.” “Why don’t you go over and see Billy?” “No, he always…
A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He…
The painter Peter Paul Rubens is recognized even today as a genius. His work has been so influential that we sometimes talk about the “Rubinesque” figure. Rubens was also quite…
We hear it all the time. We hear it in church, in interviews with sports and movie stars and we often say it ourselves….. “I’ve been blessed.” “We’ve been so…
A young employee secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm’s money. When this action was discovered the young man was told to report to the office of the…
“Why do groundhogs wake up each year in early February?” A Penn State researcher says they might emerge from their dens in February, not to see how much more of…
People under fifty in our society have never lived in America where movie language was not liberally laced with obscenities. Claude Brown, the author of Manchild in the Promised Land,…
A young boy was eagerly looking forward to the birthday party of a friend who lived only a few blocks away. When the day finally arrived, a blizzard made the…
We have called this the Information Age, but I would give it a different name. I would call it the Age of Efficiency. We want every process streamlined – we…
A missionary in Africa was preaching his first sermon in a mission church. When time came for the offering, the people danced their offerings forward. They danced and sang praise…
Jesus came preaching that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” What was there about that kingdom that got these fishermen so excited? And why are we not just as…
