GRINDS & GRIT

      After this Pentecost weekend I am reminded of the kinship that the Apostles had. The Irish say, “A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”  They also say, “Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your...

    In 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a book called “The Hobbit” and in 1954 he wrote “Lord of the Rings.” The Dwarves and Elves have given us a path.  Now, can we discern the breadcrumbs they left behind and find our way to holiness? I’ll take you back to an earlier...

 Sometimes the holiday season can seem like you’re on an escalator moving down a long corridor that starts slow and before you know it, you feel like you’re on Mr. Toads wild ride! Just prior to the beginning of advent the escalator stops briefly on “Thanksgiving.”...

Halloween has just ended, so has All Saints Day and All Souls day will conclude today.  However, tomorrow there will still be a lot of “boo who’s” still being said, as the Election in America takes place. I hope that we “Vote” for “Life and for the Economy” if we...

Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution that removed the artwork of the Belgian born, Fr. Pierre De Smet, S.J.  Pulling down statues has been around for a long time. Destroying monuments of a tolerant past in order to achieve a future of violence and...

 I went pheasant hunting with our Bishop and a group of Catholic Priests.  The one thing I really noticed about them is how much they like to laugh; and how much more they like to laugh with us.  These are men so full of life and so full of responsibility; the...

 On the clear morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Fr. Kevin Madigan heard an explosion.  Grabbing the oils for anointing he ran out the door of St. Peter's parish in New York City, and made his way to the World Trade Center just a block away. Fr. Judge was the chaplain for the...

( When Socialism gripped Mexico in the early 20th century, the new federales seduced by Marxism and Masonic superstitions declared war on the Catholic Church. Seizing control of the government in 1917. They wrote a socialist constitution packed with anticlerical...

It’s really a shame that higher education has moved to a position of discriminate discourse within our society.  Once having the potential of a wellspring to “actively and purposefully cultivate civic values in students and provide them with the practical skills...

      After this Pentecost weekend I am reminded of the kinship that the Apostles had. The Irish say, “A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”  They also say, “Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your...

    In 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a book called “The Hobbit” and in 1954 he wrote “Lord of the Rings.” The Dwarves and Elves have given us a path.  Now, can we discern the breadcrumbs they left behind and find our way to holiness? I’ll take you back to an earlier...

 Sometimes the holiday season can seem like you’re on an escalator moving down a long corridor that starts slow and before you know it, you feel like you’re on Mr. Toads wild ride! Just prior to the beginning of advent the escalator stops briefly on “Thanksgiving.”...

Halloween has just ended, so has All Saints Day and All Souls day will conclude today.  However, tomorrow there will still be a lot of “boo who’s” still being said, as the Election in America takes place. I hope that we “Vote” for “Life and for the Economy” if we...

Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution that removed the artwork of the Belgian born, Fr. Pierre De Smet, S.J.  Pulling down statues has been around for a long time. Destroying monuments of a tolerant past in order to achieve a future of violence and...

 I went pheasant hunting with our Bishop and a group of Catholic Priests.  The one thing I really noticed about them is how much they like to laugh; and how much more they like to laugh with us.  These are men so full of life and so full of responsibility; the...

 On the clear morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Fr. Kevin Madigan heard an explosion.  Grabbing the oils for anointing he ran out the door of St. Peter's parish in New York City, and made his way to the World Trade Center just a block away. Fr. Judge was the chaplain for the...

( When Socialism gripped Mexico in the early 20th century, the new federales seduced by Marxism and Masonic superstitions declared war on the Catholic Church. Seizing control of the government in 1917. They wrote a socialist constitution packed with anticlerical...

It’s really a shame that higher education has moved to a position of discriminate discourse within our society.  Once having the potential of a wellspring to “actively and purposefully cultivate civic values in students and provide them with the practical skills...

      After this Pentecost weekend I am reminded of the kinship that the Apostles had. The Irish say, “A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”  They also say, “Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your...

    In 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a book called “The Hobbit” and in 1954 he wrote “Lord of the Rings.” The Dwarves and Elves have given us a path.  Now, can we discern the breadcrumbs they left behind and find our way to holiness? I’ll take you back to an earlier...

 Sometimes the holiday season can seem like you’re on an escalator moving down a long corridor that starts slow and before you know it, you feel like you’re on Mr. Toads wild ride! Just prior to the beginning of advent the escalator stops briefly on “Thanksgiving.”...

Halloween has just ended, so has All Saints Day and All Souls day will conclude today.  However, tomorrow there will still be a lot of “boo who’s” still being said, as the Election in America takes place. I hope that we “Vote” for “Life and for the Economy” if we...

Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution that removed the artwork of the Belgian born, Fr. Pierre De Smet, S.J.  Pulling down statues has been around for a long time. Destroying monuments of a tolerant past in order to achieve a future of violence and...

 I went pheasant hunting with our Bishop and a group of Catholic Priests.  The one thing I really noticed about them is how much they like to laugh; and how much more they like to laugh with us.  These are men so full of life and so full of responsibility; the...

 On the clear morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Fr. Kevin Madigan heard an explosion.  Grabbing the oils for anointing he ran out the door of St. Peter's parish in New York City, and made his way to the World Trade Center just a block away. Fr. Judge was the chaplain for the...

( When Socialism gripped Mexico in the early 20th century, the new federales seduced by Marxism and Masonic superstitions declared war on the Catholic Church. Seizing control of the government in 1917. They wrote a socialist constitution packed with anticlerical...

It’s really a shame that higher education has moved to a position of discriminate discourse within our society.  Once having the potential of a wellspring to “actively and purposefully cultivate civic values in students and provide them with the practical skills...