The Merry Catholic

There is an ongoing debate in Ohio about whether elementary school students should be taught cursive handwriting. The requirement to teach ...

This week’s gospel reading at Mass chronicles the amazing miracle when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. This event takes up most of chap...

Boy, talk about frustration. I was all set to write a column about the maddening process of trying to get a problem resolved at that bastio...

Imagine this scenario: It’s the middle of the night. You’re sound asleep. Suddenly, the smoke alarm starts beeping loudly. You stumble out ...

The other day a friend said to me, “Bill, don’t worry about your birthday, because 60 is the new 50.” I also heard recently that 50 is...

Do you have any loved ones who are far from home? Quite often we are separated from the people we love because of jobs or school or militar...

As I mentioned previously, I quit Facebook a while ago. I guess I couldn’t handle all the excitement of discovering that a high school clas...