Scott, a junior in high school, is sitting in his room feeling sorry for himself. He is mad at his parents. He had wanted to borrow the car to go…

In his book A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, Phillip Keller gives the following example: When he started as a shepherd in the Rocky Mountains, he was unaware of the…

How many of you have been ridiculed for practicing your Catholic faith? Perhaps comments were made when you were at a cocktail party or some other social gathering. Maybe the…

Catherine was really mad at God. She had to admit it. Her husband just found out that his cancer had come back---for the third time, and he would have to…

Angela had a hard time falling asleep. Eventually she did, but then woke up before the alarm went off. She tried to get back to sleep, but she just couldn’t.…

The story of the woman caught in adultery is a powerful one. In Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, his depiction of this scene really illustrates the power…

An Asia-American man wrote this story: In the mid 90's my mom and dad, my younger brother and sister and I came to America from Asia. Once we got here,…

Bill was tired of the mess in his basement. So, one Saturday, he decided to get cracking on what was down there. The first box he opened made him pause,…

When James was confronted by his closest friend about his need to seek help for his drinking problem, he was ready to push back with all the force that he…

A man’s daughter had asked a priest to visit her sick father. The priest found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty…

Regina was going off on her mother again to her friend, Maryanne. Regina was describing her mother as a very controlling, and rather self-centered person, always disappointed if things don’t…

St. Teresa of Avila was the great reformer of the Carmelite Order. She spent the last years of her life traveling extensively, as she laid the foundation for seventeen discalced…