Happy New Year! Welcome to the start of another journey on the road to heaven. Want a good start? Use a good roadmap and find wise guides. Y...

Even little ones can start practicing a rule of life.  See The Beginner's Rule of Life I'm going to do a little series on the Rule o...

This week has been interesting with regard to my spiritual reading. Everything I pick up has been about feelings and their proper place. Loo...

One of my favorite Catholic authors is Fr. Leo Trese. presently I'm reading his 1961 book, Seventeen Steps to Heaven . I take seriously ...

Give up a glass of wine with dinner? My thoughts are all over the place this morning -- this very early morning. Sleep and I have become str...

Well, it was one of those nights. I turned the light off around eleven, slept somewhat fitfully, and was wide awake at 4:30. So what does ...

I always pick out a book for Lent to be my primary reading material. Since I read St. Francis de Sales Sermons for Advent, I decided to re...

After reading Soul of a Lion , the biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand by his wife Alice, I decided to tackle his Transformation in Christ ...

Flannery O'Connor's A Prayer Journal From the New York Times book review: While O’Connor was a student at the Iowa Writers’ Work...