The author and poet Joyce Kilmer was a friend of Father Charles O'Donnell, CSC of Notre Dame back in the early 1900s. He wrote a famous little poem about trees that has often been suspected of being inspired by a... Continue Reading →
This past June, I took my sons to Fatima, Portugal. It was one of the best parenting moves I've ever made. I personally was so overcome with emotion that at one point I separated myself from our group, fell to my knees... Continue Reading →
Romance is great but it has little to do with true love. True love lasts, so it's important to recognize it when you see it.
An old friend gets ordained a bishop. We watch the livestream from 872 miles away. At the end, while he's leaving the church, he shows off an amazing new power of seeing us through a tv screen. Whoah! Mind. Blown.... Continue Reading →
A surprising oddity as we hiked the Camino de Santiago de Compestela was the dogs. Yes, the dogs.
I just returned from Spain and Portugal with my three sons and group of nine other men. We've got some stories to tell.
Listen carefully to the pre-flight instructions and you might hear a very scriptural insight.
A striking photo from the battlefield at Iwo Jima amplifies a reality that ALL Catholics experience.
The story seems a little more real when you see & hear real live humans talking about it.
The Grotto photo will be featured on Catholic radio, a parish talk, and a Notre Dame internet TV broadcast. Some details and thoughts about all this..
Some family and friends really got into Holy Week text exchanges this week. Fun stuff. 🙂
We killed Him. We freaking killed HIM. Today was like a funeral for me. I'm not only sad, but I'm outraged at what we did to Jesus. We? Yes, WE! I was and am still part of the problem.
Every time the story of Our Lady's image in a snowflake seems to be over, another new and unlikely connection emerges.
Dr. Richard C. Boling Sr. was good to me when I needed him. That is something I'll never forget.
Our son wanted to go to Rome but did not have the money. So what's he doing in Rome today?
Thoughts from the Side of the House... 