Jesus made it. My kids do it. I drink it. In vino veritas.
A short bio
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One word: Solidarity
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My Dad once told me…
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Because the Church is concerned that her members have healthy marriages, she recognizes that a healthy sex life is an integral part of making that a reality. The question we need to be asking then is not whether birth control should be licit, but rather how to ensure that couples develop the healthiest sex life.
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I went to the church office a few days ahead of our wedding day to drop off our marriage license. The receptionist’s eyes widened as she took me by the shoulders and asked, “Have you seen the church yet?” ************ We got married 3 years ago on the Solemnity of St. Joseph. We didn’t want…
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Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. Song of Solomon 1:4 There’s definitely a focus this season on doing things, adding prayers, fasting, and giving alms. Christ did after all demand that we take up our cross daily and keep His commandments as a sign of…
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One year when I was a kid, my mom gave my brother and I a heads up that Lent was around the corner. She was very surprised and a little worried when we were both super excited that the season was coming up soon. Living in south Louisiana, Lent coincided with crawfish season, and every…
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It was a spectacularly beautiful sunny June day. I was sitting in a park in Tiburon across the bay from San Francisco looking across the water to the city. Alcatraz was in the foreground, and the bay was peppered with sailboats. The fog blanket was moving in over the Golden Gate Bridge on it’s way…
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It seems that one can never fully plumb the depths of inspiration provided by marriage and motherhood, and yet with all the fodder they provide, there is the fear as a writer of becoming stale. That’s my super fancy way of saying I began February with writers block. Then I got hit with food poisoning…
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On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled to enshrine a woman’s “right” to have an abortion. Ever since that ruling, advances in medical science cease to allow us to be blind to the fact that the being formed in a mother’s womb is a human being from the moment of conception. Even with incredible…
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When I first saw the phrase “toxic masculinity”, I was struck that a phrase so ridiculously oxymoronic would not be universally panned as soon as it made headlines. And then once I remembered the times we live in, I suppose I should only be surprised we did not arrive here sooner. The only thing toxic…
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