“Let’s” Talk by Fr. Don Larson
This week I’m away for a week-long silent retreat, so no homily (some parishioners are…
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Why I Decided I Wanted to Become a Saint, and Why You Should Too
In grade 11, I skipped class so often that, if you add all the days…
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Wanting What God Wants
A young lady once told me, after she broke up with her boyfriend, that a…
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Corrupt Popes
I want to talk about the subject of corrupt popes, because it bothers so many…
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Pro-Life Voters Guide
Some people are wanting more information on which candidates in the upcoming federal election are…
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Love Always Challenges Us
Being Catholic sometimes seems inconvenient. When I was 24 years old, I learned that voting…
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Jesus is Everything
Vince Druding was a regular 18-year-old from Indiana whose favourite football player was Walter Payton.…
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The “Very Religious” Chris Farley
This is a very touching article about Chris Farley, a Catholic who struggled with addictions…
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“Sex-Change” Surgery: What You Should Know
Someone recently asked me about this subject, and I’ve found this short article to be…
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Changing Ourselves, Not Others
Let’s say next week we put a ‘Suggestion Box’ at the back of the church,…
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Why Does a Good God Allow Suffering? The Answer
Everyone asks this question but I’ve never heard a persuasive answer that completely satisfies… until…
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How to Explain What Marriage Is
I highly recommend this video explaining what marriage is from a philosophical point of view,…
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Holding Hands During the Our Father?
Are you a hand-holder, arm-folder or somewhere in between? What should we be doing during…
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Should We Applaud At Mass?
Someone recently asked me this question. Here’s a great nuanced answer. Fr. Edward McNamara is…
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Who Offers the Best Way to Live? Jesus or the World?
Who in your life is a deep person? Would you say I’m a deep person…
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How Bread Becomes Jesus’ Body
Someone once told me that scientists showed that if you took apart all the molecules…
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Living One Day at a Time
A caller calls in on a Catholic talk show: “My husband left me 9 months…
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Why Only Some People Can Receive Holy Communion
People legitimately ask why can’t anyone just receive Holy Communion? After all, isn’t Jesus welcoming…
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Helping Not Just Canada
Firstly, after two weeks of Deacon Lucio preaching, someone said to me, “Hey Father, he’s…
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We’re Made for More
If we’re not happy in our marriage, something is wrong. If we’re not happy at…
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Seven Reasons Not to be Afraid
Do you know why I’m not yet on Twitter (to share God’s Word)? Do you…
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Being Holy Now
You know I love asking hard questions, because hard questions can give us beautiful answers!…
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Cafeteria Catholicism
How many have heard the term, “Cafeteria Catholic”? It refers to Catholics who pick and…
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Is the Shroud Jesus’ Actual Burial Cloth?
Barrie Schwortz isn’t a Catholic, but has been studying the Shroud since 1978. In this…
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World Christianity by the numbers
An helpful commentary on religious statistics by George Weigel: “Of the 7.3 billion human beings on…
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Ask Fr. Mike: How Do I Find My Vocation?
Fr. Mike Schmitz gives three simple tips that will help us discern our vocations and continue…
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Why Getting Drunk is a Sin
Is getting drunk a sin? St. Paul, in the second reading, lists ‘the works of…
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Living in the Present
I’d like to talk about two problems: living in the past and living in the…
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No Greater Love
To the men here who are married, do you remember how you proposed to your…
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A Glorious Bastard: The Witness of Alec Guinness
Some time ago, some friends and I were talking about how none of us come…
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