Out in the field training one weekend I found myself looking at nature as I monitored the radio.  I found patches of clover.  I harkened back to my youth-and sure enough, found a four-leaf clover.  An anomaly in the bunch, but common enough for people everywhere to find them and claim them as good luck. We look upon those four-leaf clovers as s...

By: Fr. Nathaniel Drogin One morning I couldn’t sleep so I went outside for a walk. The sky was still dark and I could see a lot of stars. I wondered if maybe the night were really a sheet, shot through with thousands of buck-shot. Not a regular sheet you would keep on your bed but one which would block out all light except for the sparks which ...

It was one of those seemingly innocuous events that should have been long ago forgotten. Instead, it is etched in my memory. When I was growing up in the 1950s, Lawler, Iowa was a bustling little village. One of our local entrepreneurs, Gus Schael, owned a hatchery that was great fun for little kids, but a pain for the local postmaster. It was...

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth’” (Genesis 1:26). God has entrusted the living creatures of the world to our governance ...

Catholics have been relishing in the truth for a long time.  Millennia actually.  I was raised in a very typical American way, complete with Beavis and Butthead and education for the sake of big mortgages – not exactly experiences in relishing truth.  Not until I became a Catholic in my young adult years did I really learned to think.  Cathol...