This election was emotionally devastating for me. This is not so much because of the results though they did, in many ways, depress and terrify me. Much of my angst had to do with the choice that was posed. The incumbent has the most anti-baby and pro-abortion record of any president in American history. His challenger had a record on abortion that ( Read more... )

Many of my unbeleiving friends ask me how I can love God ( Read more... )

Today's Lenten reading comes from Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical letter, Spe Salvi:

39. To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves-these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself. Yet once ( Read more... )