You’ve heard of people praying with the saints. I’ve done plenty of crying with the saints. But laughing with the saints? I hadn’t thought of going there until Fr. Jim sent me this youtube video of his presentation at the Religious Booksellers Trade Exhibit last June. I like that. Laughing with the saints.

I think my friend, Fr. Jim Martin, did an excellent job of explaining where the media went wrong in all the hype about “the new seven deadly sins.” Below I’ve pasted his blog post from “In All Things,” a blog written by “America’s” (the Catholic weekly magazine) editors. But click on this link to read…

Confession: I had to consult my “Catechism of the Catholic Church” today to review what, exactly, is a mortal sin: A grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions…

I always got a head ache after my class “The Problem with Evil.” And I continue to write my professor–Dr. Joe Incandela, a Princeton Ph.D. and a brilliant man–every time something goes really wrong in the world: 9/11, sniper attacks, Virginia Tech. “Okay, now what do you say? Does this change things any? How am…

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