You’ve signed the petitions, read (and possibly written) the posts, and even changed your Facebook picture to show the Obama Administration how upset you are with their attack on your religious liberty. So there, now they know exactly where you stand. You won’t take this nonsense,...

Desire to be despised, rebuked, calumniated, forgotten, ridiculed, wronged, and suspected. Fear being esteemed, loved, extolled, honored, praised, preferred to others, consulted, and approved. There are no typos. You should desire some and fear others – this is quite opposite of what...

I will be honest, a week ago I was really scared. It was my wife’s “Due Date” with our second child, and I realized that I was about to double the amount of children I had. Our first, our daughter, was awesome. She was born 6 months after we moved to Alaska, 9 months after I...

Recently, I have taken up a new pursuit: fur trapping. Knowing this is an emotionally charged topic, I will not to make it a focal point of my post, but I mention it for analogy reasons. You see, as someone new to art, and trust me it is an art, I am starting with basic skills and  a very...

Life is hard, and there are going to be days where it seems that your world is caving in around you. For most of us, those days usually involve death, failure, sin, or some other monumental event. Then there are the days where we feel almost as bad due to some big disappointment, but to almost...

The problem with pleasure isn’t that it exists. In other words, it isn’t the same thing as the problem of evil. The problem isn’t that pleasure exists, no, it is how we seek it and what we seek it from that is the problem. I was discussing this with a friend the other night...

I want to #occupyyourheart for a few minutes. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) We can’t turn around without hearing about the economic woes of the world. Everywhere we look there is a story about market crashes, foreclosures, bailouts, failures, greed, or a general belief that there is...

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. This I command you, to love one another. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me...

If you are reading this, well then you read blogs. Chances are you probably write one, or have, or will. We all love our faith, no doubt about it. We all think we have something important to say about it too, and many of us do. But few of us will ever grow up to be superstar priests with our...

“Who is like God?” This is the translated meaning of ‘Michael’. The Captain of the Heavenly Hosts, the Angelic Warrior that cast Lucifer from Heaven for eternity, Guardian of Paradise. The question is as haunting as it is triumphant. “Who is like God?” It is...

No one said this would be easy. Living as a Catholic in the world, but not being of the world – yeah, it is hard. And if you don’t think it is hard, either give me your secret or quit lying to yourself. God told us that we would be hated, that some of us would die for the faith,...

Hi…I am a little nervous writing here which is kind of weird for me, since I don’t really get nervous. But when I was asked to write for this awesome new site, I was completely surprised. First, I am on the older end of the spectrum of “Young” at 32 years old. Second, I...