In “Francesco,” a documentary that touches on the pope’s issues, from migration to the environment, Francis does not indicate any openness to extending marriage to same-sex couples, but says “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.”

We recently celebrated All Souls' Day. It's a day of prayer and remembrance for the souls of those who have died. Lighting a candle is one way of extending one's prayer. The lighting of candles has been observed since the early martyrs.

As Detroit Catholic on-line recently wrote: "For the past 30 years, Deacon Ken Trabbic and his wife, Sharon, have used pumpkin farming as a way to share their faith — and it’s working." The Trabbic farm is proving to be a great way make spirituality fun. 

Everywhere you look, or listen, the word 'Covid' somehow enters the room. From the moment we wake up, until the end of our (new normal) days, it's Covid. We're managing to say "not today Covid" and here are some suggestions. Pray for a cure. God Bless.

Let’s start with this. Women constitute the majority of members of consecrated life in the Catholic Church: in 2010, there were around 721,935 professed women religious. When I say mass and look out on any weekday morning, I see more women than men. Why don’t women hold a higher position in the Catholic Church?  

Blessed Carlo Acutis was a 15-year-old Italian Catholic schoolboy and amateur computer programmer when he died. He was best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them all onto a website that he created in the months before his death from leukemia. He was beatified October 10, 2020 in Assisi, Italy. This is a beautiful story

A few short years ago, the 34-year-old would have been about the same age as most of his classmates in a Catholic seminary. But no longer. The majority of our seminarians are in their mid-to late 20s. This makes for an interesting podcast.

Pope John Paul II wrote: Sacred Scripture is truly divine, because it belongs to God truly and genuinely: God himself inspired it, God confirmed it, God spoke it through the sacred writers Moses, the Prophets, the Evangelists, the Apostles and, above all, through his Son, our only Lord, in both the Old and the New Testament.

Are you old enough to remember if you eat meat on Friday you’ll go to hell? Was that extreme? Looking back, perhaps. The point is, when we make the extra effort to improve our relationship with God the reward is special. You should try it.

Have you gone to dinner with friends? Have you gone to a grocery store, pharmacy or doctor's appointment? I could go through a number of places or events. The question is, as a Catholic, have you used the pandemic as an excuse to skip Mass?