It’s A Wonderful Life – to Suffer and Die Like a Saint
As you read this sentence, a remarkable event is unfolding in a small golfing village named Hobe Sound on the eastern coastline of Florida. Martin Kavanaugh, one of the most influential men in the Professional Golf Association over the past four decades, is learning...
The Prayerful Mystic; or the Non-Stop Worker
THE PRAYERFUL MYSTIC; OR THE NON-STOP WORKER BOTH/AND Few could pin Fr. Al down. At the tortuous moments just prior to his death from Lou Gehrig’s Disease, he belted out whispered commands to those at his bedside: Please remind the Sisters that they must pray three...
Fr. Aloysius Schwartz and St. Therese of Lisieux
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” As the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus approaches, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children)...
Chalco’s Gift of Tears
“Non sum ego eram”- I am not that I was Fr. Bob Golas had been a priest for nearly two decades in the Archdiocese of Washington when something foreign – something uncontrollable – began to materialize in his body this past winter. It came on abruptly. Those in his...