“The first thing is that true love is always about the good of your spouse, not yourself. So when you hurt your spouse because of your own selfishness you’re really betraying your vows in a very fundamental way. But then comes the decision on the part of the spouse to be able to forgive you, if you genuinely ask for forgiveness.” Fr. Joe Voor

‘Sam’ is the name I gave the person who walked off with my ‘livelihood on a hard drive’ when I returned from the National Catholic Youth Conference held recently in Kansas City.

“Imagine Eve standing naked before this deadly force, a big, mean, saber-toothed serpent, … (which says to her) ‘God told you that if you eat from the Tree of Knowledge, you’d die. But God knows that if you eat of the tree, you will be like him. God’s not fair. And by the way, look at my teeth.’”

“If you let the devil ride, he’ll drive,” preached Rhetta, a tobacco-chewing, Christian grandma.