Stewardship and Evangelization

I’ve been in Chicago, since Monday (flying in from Tampa), hence the lack of blogging. In Chicago I was attending the International Catholic Stewardship Council’s annual conference. The theme of the conference this year linked Saint Paul, evangelization with the idea of stewardship. It was in a conversation with a pastor of a large church [...]

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

From a book I authored entitled The Church’s Most Powerful Novenas:
Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn named the fifth of their seven children Margaret on the day of her birth, July 22, 1647. Margaret, born in Lauthecourt, France, would barely get to know her father before he would die of pneumonia when she was eight. A [...]

Noise

It started about ten years ago, I was with friends at a Jaguar-Bengal game in Cincinnati and I complained about the noise that blasts over the sound system. My friend said, “You’re getting old, man.”
This past week at the Panther-Buccaneer game really took the cake. Sound blasting at peak in the stadium, out at the [...]