We can all “run to win,” but we all can’t win. There has to be a place in this world for the “losers”.
Author: Kevin Wondrash
SPOILER ALERT: Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday
SPOILER ALERT: God knows what’s coming next. We might not like it, but He’s with us.
The decline and fall of the written word
What was once something so personal and so human — because it had to be — is going the way of everything else that became industrialized, mass-produced, and heartlessly churned out.
Looking for answers where there are none
There are many things in life we will know the truth about. We might not like a lot of it, but we’ll know in time what we want to know.
Back to the garden
Every year, large numbers of people remember and celebrate three historic days that they believe changed the world.
Communion bread baking ovens arrive at new monastery site
With the help of technicians who flew in from France, the Sisters’ altar bread baking machines were disassembled at their current monastery near Prairie du Sac, taken to their new and nearly finished monastery near Hollandale, and reassembled.
Leaping back to 1996
We thought it would be “fun” to go back 28 years (wow) and see what the world according to the Catholic Herald was like in late February of 1996.
Don’t be a ‘sometimes sinner’
I’m certainly not encouraging us to be obligatory about this and feel that “if we’re going to sin anyway, we might as well make it a good one (see: presumption),” but even if we don’t see ourselves — and probably aren’t — as bad as some of the most evil people who may or may not be in the bad place, we’re still sinners who sin.
Even if we’re bright shining lights for all six out of seven days, that remaining day could be the difference in what happens to us when we die.
Putting ourselves into Lent
Welcome to Lent, everyone. Welcome to 40-plus days (actual number dependent upon how you handle Sundays, solemnities, and so on) of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, “giving up” things, and not eating meat on certain days.
How to live in a ‘bad news’ world
we know that all is well and all will be well because Jesus was born, died, and rose again all in the name of the “Good News”.