Can you believe it's the third week of Advent already? We're lighting the rose candle on the Advent wreath and celebrating Gaudete Sunday! Gaudete is a different form of the same work I use in my tagline for From the Abbey: Gaudium. It means "Joy."...
New York recently past a law requiring all citizens to be organ donors unless they opt out. While Catholic moral theologians are still debating the moral rightness of organ donation, in a culture of death this new law is more than problematic.
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In our diocesan parenting program, "Teaching the Way of Love," one of the points we make is that we need to teach our children how to receive love well in addition to teaching them how to give love. I tell the story of Christmas at my parents' home and...