Category: JOYCE CORONEL

  • December 16, 2013

Beloved Nativity set brings back memories, reminds us to trust

The Child Jesus enters our broken, fallen world with His purity and innocence and fragility. He is born...
  • November 18, 2013

Giving thanks in the midst of senseless tragedy

When I first heard about what happened to Albert Quihuis, 90, and his wife, Sophia, 87, my initial...
  • October 14, 2013

Pope: Our first calling is to love, embrace all people

You know those emails that insist you “must” click on this link, view that video or delve into...
  • September 13, 2013

Evidence is clear: We are hard-wired for generous love

A recent headline in The Wall Street Journal caught my attention: “Hard-wired for Giving.” The lead into the...
  • August 13, 2013

Fathers: Giving life, faith to others — or not

Even now, four years after the day we lost him, I still hear the voice of my father...
  • July 17, 2013

Marriage rulings: Wake up and smell the coffee, America

Even with many Americans still professing faith in God (sort of) we are clearly in a post-Christian era...
  • June 2, 2013

Remembering a gentle shepherd murdered by militants

Today we remember Chaldean Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni, who, along with three subdeacons from Church of the Holy...
  • May 7, 2013

Media ignores grisly murder trial, but pictures don’t lie

Not the blood-spattered walls, not the unsterilized surgical instruments, not the corpses of tiny babies kept in cat...
  • April 10, 2013

Tolerance is wonderful — if you agree with the cultural elite, that is

While it’s true that men and women have their fundamental differences, it’s also true that they are made...
  • March 18, 2013

Faith starts with facts, spreads through ‘still, small voice’

There comes a time in the life of every parent of a teenager or college student that you...