A Christian citizen’s duty to the common good By MJ KurdysIn the early 1930’s,  Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German citizen and supporter of Hitler’s National Conservative movement.  He was known to have made remarks to others denigrating the Jews and...

Eucharistic Coherence is a term in vogue recently. As Catholics we have to ask ourselves, “What is Eucharistic Coherence and how did this term pop up out of nowhere?” If this is the first time you’ve heard the term, that’s OK - it just means you’re not keeping up with...

Glimpsing Heaven on Earth The hot summer day in our Midwestern town began with no warning that the soft, cozy rug my husband and I had under our feet would suddenly be pulled out from under us.  He called in the afternoon to tell me he had lost his dream job, not due...

Long ago, after reading a pastor's note on peace, I asked, “What is peace?”  Many will say peace is the lack of war, some will say it’s a feeling of comfort and others will say that Christ is peace.  All of these answers are correct but Philippians 4:6 says, “And the...

By Matt Rowe  Judging by the way the Church hierarchy has publicly responded to political events and the COVID virus, the leadership of the church appears much more concerned with our mortal bodies and earthly issues than our immortal souls.  In the US, church...

In the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men (1992) there was an explosive exchange in which Tom Cruise’s character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, is relentlessly cross-examining Col. Nathan Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, about a tragic incident that left a Marine dead.  Kaffee is...