In 2000, the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit unless a Kansas City courthouse removed a Ten Commandments monument from its lawn. The monument was moved about 100 feet across the street to St. Anthony’s Catholic Church so that
Jan 22 | Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
When I was 18 years old, I felt the calling to become a priest. It was 1993 and I was in my senior year of high school. At the time, I had been dating a girl for about 18 months
Jan 15 | Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel we find John the Baptist encountering Jesus the day after Jesus’ baptism. This Gospel passage opens to us the deep truth of who Jesus really is. John says that Jesus “existed before me.” This of course does
Jan 8 | The Epiphany of the Lord
The Cologne Cathedral is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany’s most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day. At 157 m (515
Jan 1 | Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
When Karol Józef Wojtyła was 9 years old, he lost his own mother, and he was raised by a very devout father. From an early age, St. John Paul had a beautiful devotion to our Blessed Mother as mother, and