I tried to blog in the confessional today. What I mean by that is I tried to tell the priest what I told my readers in Feeding the Hungry I, my post from this morning. "The works of my Hungry I are works of the flesh as St. Paul calls them," I said. "I have been [...]
Yesterday I wrote a bit about the third chapter of Colleen Caroll Campbell's book My Sisters, the Saints, in which she writes about Divine Mercy and Human Desire. The day before Divine Mercy Sunday this year, I wrote the following ... I have never before felt that martyrdom was an actual possibility in this life. Now [...]
Colleen Caroll Campbell has written a dynamite book, My Sisters, the Saints. I am reading it aloud to my wife Karen. Tonight I read Chapter Three, which is about how St. Faustina and the concept of Divine Mercy helped Colleen to make a very difficult decision in 2003, the year she served as a speechwriter [...]
When we pour ourselves into the form God made for us, we are happy and fulfilled. When we ignore that and mold things our own way, we are miserable. I think addiction is a fine example of the latter. Addiction is on the far end of the sin spectrum. Addiction is the Gollum principle at work [...]
Many years ago, I was in Bardstown, Kentucky. I was channel surfing on AM radio and I found a station playing "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles. I stopped the car, got gas, bought some stuff in the store, and started the car again after ten minutes to hear the same station playing the same [...]
Chuck Chalberg as G. K. Chesterton at Pauline Books and Media in St. Louis Stained glass window of Christ in blue jeans - the modern everyman-as-Christ - in the chapel at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, IA The stations at St. Ambrose all feature the blue jean Jesus - the modern everyman as Christ. Jesus addresses the [...]
Colin O'Brien (right) at age 21. As a father, I never thought I was doing anything special. Our son Colin was born 21 years ago - April 20, 1992. It was a day that changed my life entirely for the better. I never thought I could love another human being the way I loved him - [...]
"People will do anything for a fifty dollar bill," said George Bernard Shaw, "except work for it." George Bernard Shaw I'm paraphrasing. He probably said "fifty pound note". He put that line in the mouth of one of the characters in his play Major Barbara, which also contains the lines (again I'm quoting from memory) There [...]
Have you ever noticed that we can't hurt someone or do an injustice to someone without vilifying that person first? We can't do a dirty deed unless we've rationalized it. Part of the witness of Christ Himself was His "passive resistance" at His trial. By allowing us to do what we did to Him, He showed [...]
Tonight we performed my totally re-written script of We're Off to Kill the Wizard for the first time. The show stars Maria Romine as Dorothy. Larry the Cable Guy as the Scarecrow Justin Bieber as the Tin Man And Samuel L. Jackson as the Cowardly Lion Our performance was at Holy-Field Winery in [...]
