Category: Catholicism

  • Why Busy Catholics Should Read Fratelli Tutti

    Why Busy Catholics Should Read Fratelli Tutti

    [Check out my post on Where Peter Is. Here is a sample.] I am a busy husband and dad with a demanding job, so reading a lengthy papal document is not the easiest thing to take the time to do, nor is it typically high on my list of things to do. That said, over…

  • My Experience with Amy Barrett

    My Experience with Amy Barrett

    Many of my friends and family have asked my thoughts about Amy Coney Barrett since her name started being circulated as the next Supreme Court justice because I had her as a professor at Notre Dame Law School. While others are much more qualified to give their inside impression of her (such as NDLS professors…

  • Thoughts on the Arrest of My Parish Pastor for Sex Trafficking

    Thoughts on the Arrest of My Parish Pastor for Sex Trafficking

    Last Tuesday, the pastor of my parish, Fr. Michael Zacharias, was arrested for sex trafficking. He seemed like a nice and normal person. He did not come off as creepy. I knew him casually in the way most active parishioners knew him. Talks in confession, his homilies, questions after Mass. I liked him. In Findlay,…