Dear friends:   "Do you know what is wrong with your country?"   This pointed question was reportedly asked of then U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance by my dear, late friend, Dr. Charles Malik, former President of the United Nations General Assembly. The Secretary responded that he did not.  "I'll tell you what is wrong," said Dr. Malik.  "You have taken Jesus Christ out of your universities."   The same is no doubt true of all of America's schools.  Fisher Ames, the actual

Several years ago, when we lived in Florida, my neighbor Dawn had an encounter with an alligator…. What would  you  do if your next-door neighbor called screaming that an alligator was in your Koi pond? Dawn, an Ohio farm girl, didn’t hesitate. No alligator was going to eat all of  her  Koi!! Grabbing a hard-pronged rake, Dawn raced to face her intruder. The young gator was happily gorging on her expensive fish when Dawn reached the pond. Hooking the reptile in the jaw, Dawn

T he Church has not been immune to the problems afflicting our culture. During the last fifty years, the Church has slipped from its...