An Encouraging Word — Why bother with encouragement?
byLet not fidelity leave you. Proverbs 3:3 I started writing this column as a way of encouraging discouraged Catholics. I am nearing the end…
Let not fidelity leave you. Proverbs 3:3 I started writing this column as a way of encouraging discouraged Catholics. I am nearing the end…
Be united in the same mind and the same purpose. I Corinthians 1:10 Catholics tend to think that marriage and priesthood are polar opposites,…
Cast me not off in my old age. Psalm 71:9 I have been saying for years that the biggest shortage in the Catholic Church…
I shall not die, but live! Psalm 118:17 I have lost count of how many dioceses I have visited to speak to priests. I…
By Father J. Ronald Knott Write down all these things that have happened to you. Tobit 12:20 I have been keeping journals since I…
Wrath and hatred are hateful things. Sirach 27:30 After all these years, approximately 20 years to be precise, I still remember it! I was…
Who am I to do this thing? Exodus 3:11 May and June are months when many of us celebrate anniversaries: marriages, ordinations and graduations….
Father J. Ronald Knott Show kindness and compassion toward each other. Zechariah 7:9 The ideas for this column come from observing ordinary people going…
Father J. Ronald Knott If this endeavor is of human origin, it will destroy itself. But if it comes from God, you may find…
Father J. Ronald Knott Know then that God has dealt unfairly with me. Job 19:6 My mother died of breast cancer 36 years ago…