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…
