November is Black Catholic History Month. We often forget how difficult it was to be a black Catholic in the Jim Crow days. I was...

Part of being the “religious/Catholic guy” at parties, wedding dinners, receptions or even at work is that people will ask me for my take on...

BUSAN, South Korea – A year after the Catholic Synod of Bishops met in Rome to reflect on the New Evangelization, the 10th Assembly of...

By Father Tom Ryan, CSP, for Catholic News Service   BUSAN, South Korea – Often, people look at church congregations and meetings and wonder, “Where...

The year was 1972, and Father Walter J. Dalton, CSP, was celebrating Masses in the homes of the faithful of Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Some 41...

I have a new computer. In fact, it’s the year in which our Cathedral offices are all getting new computers of one type or another....

It’s 1931 in Bakersfield, Calif. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs....

I was reading an article recently called “The Truman Factor,” and it referred to the Jim Carrey movie in which he plays a character called...

Some time ago, I was going to a counseling center and a woman had an appointment about the same time as mine for awhile. She...