Aspiring to surpass Google
Cartoonist Gary Brookins and one of his regular readers/fans from Virginia inspired this column. Brookins creates “Pluggers,” a single-panel cartoon that appears every day in the Evansville Courier & Press. The fan from Virginia suggested a theme: “A grandpa plugger’s b...Read full story »
Thursday, February 16, 2017
I wake up so early for a reason
I didn’t get to sleep until almost midnight on the night last week when Clemson won the national championship of major-college football. I had a hunch the game would come down to the final minute, and it did – actually, to the final six seconds. Heck of a game. All of that...Read full story »
Thursday, January 19, 2017
No resolutions here; just sincere wishes
This space includes no resolutions – only the sincere wish God provided in the Old Testament. “A reading from the Book of Numbers,” the lector said as she began the first reading for the 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Benedict Cathedral Parish on Jan. 1. I could have looked at the day...Read full story »
Thursday, January 05, 2017
Celebrating Christmas on the Sabbath
In the first reading for Mass on Dec. 16, we hear the prophet Isaiah proclaim: “Thus says the Lord … All who keep the Sabbath free from profanationand hold to my covenant,Them I will bring to my holy mountainand make joyful in my house of prayer” (Isaiah 56). Webster defines the v...Read full story »
Thursday, December 15, 2016
What do we really need?
When it comes to living and enjoying life … what do we really need? Seriously – what do you and I really NEED? We need God, of course. Our relationship with Him is the only thing we truly need. He will provide everything else. As evidence, consider the Moxihatetema. “National Geo...Read full story »
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Hoping for 'exceptionally faith-filled days' ahead
It’s 10:30 a.m. in Jasper and Loogootee as I write this; it’s 9:30 a.m. in Haubstadt and Poseyville. It’s Nov. 8 – election day. By the time you read this, we all will know the outcome of the election. None of us know it as I write this. That’s actually why I chose to...Read full story »
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Don't ask me
Don’t ask me who to vote for on Nov. 8. If you are looking for this paper to endorse any candidate, you will be disappointed. If you are looking for this paper to tell you who NOT to vote for, you will be disappointed. You have to ask yourself what you believe and what you sta...Read full story »
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Thoughts from along the road to conversion
During his homily at the Oct. 12 White Mass for the medical community in our area, Bishop Charles C. Thompson made a statement that inspired this column. “The call to conversion is not an act of meanness, “he said. “Ultimately, it is an act of love.” On the surface, that see...Read full story »
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Visit Mary this month … in her Evansville Grotto
October has five Sundays this year, which means you have four opportunities remaining (Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30) to visit the Blessed Virgin Mary in her Evansville Grotto. Volunteers from St. Boniface Parish are offering tours of Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, located under St. Boniface Church, from 11 a...Read full story »
Thursday, October 06, 2016
When God shines through the eyes of a child
Molly made my eyes well up with tears of joy. Beaming, she processed down the main aisle of one of our churches at the end of a recent weekend Mass, the priest a few steps behind her with a smile almost as large as the young server in front of him. Less than two minutes earlier, just before the f...Read full story »
Friday, September 23, 2016
