COLUMNS
Stop comparing yourself to others
With the prevalence of social media, Peggy Weber knows it’s easy to compare ourselves with other people’s picture perfect lives – and find our own lives lacking.
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Last year, I was asked to speak at several conferences and was blessed to meet many Catholics with disabilities throughout the United States.
When work can be a force for great good or great evil
As a Catholic writer whose faith frames so much of what is written, I sometimes lose my bearings, usually when I have let anger or frustration get the better of me, or when I have been neglectful of my prayer life.
Father Koch: The exercise of freedom in charity is a new teaching from Jesus
As we continue to read through the Sermon on the Mount, we hear Jesus offering deeper insight into the fuller understanding of the Mosaic Law.
The grace around us
The writer Annie Dillard said, "You catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall." Am I stingy about receiving grace, I wondered after a shopping trip.
Speaking with authority
Everywhere we hear people say: “That’s just talk! That’s nothing but empty words!”
Bringing light to the darkness of who we are meant to be
Years ago, while visiting upstate New York, my husband thought it would be a great family outing to visit some wind caves.
Father Koch: Jesus interprets, fulfills the Law for us
There are big picture people and there are small picture people.
A winter's morning
Waking up in a cold bedroom, bundled up under layers of blankets, I was happy to feel good.
Online and in print, Catholic press reports on a very active Church
Catholic Press Month reminds us of our mission – to deliver authentic Catholic-based news and perspective to our diocesan community.
The gift of St. Valentine’s Day
Many people associate this month with great happiness and joy due to the Feast of St. Valentine on Feb. 14.
What does it mean to be big-hearted, magnanimous?
Once during a baseball game in high school an umpire made very unfair call against our team.
Father Koch: A light hidden is no light at all
As last Sunday was the Solemnity of the Presentation of the Lord we omitted the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time.
What world are we creating with our words?
Words have a unique power to heal and to comfort, to inspire and to teach. They also serve to damage, to plant seeds of evil and incite to hatred.
Elders shape the future
During February my thoughts turn to two of my favorite biblical figures, Simeon and Anna.
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