I recently attended a Memorial Service for my grandfather. It was an amazing miracle that we had a chance to say goodbye in a church service, actually. My Grandpa had Christianity stamped in his soul. At age 94, Grandpa arrived over an hour early...

St. Joseph Cemetery, Malone New York Burial site of Robert E. Benjamin Jon saying a last goodbye to his father On September 20, 2009, my husband's father died 90 days after his first cancer diagnosis. I held my husband's hand as he threw a clod of...

I found this interesting biography of Simonne Jeanne Michenon, a member of the French Resistance who is buried in a local cemetery in D.C. "Her friends remember one particular story she would tell of German troops storming into her family home at the...

A glorious Irish greeting to you! St. Patrick is one of my favorite saints. My husband and I made a trip to Ireland six weeks after my conversion to Catholicism. I returned home on fire for my new faith. I give credit for my radical change of heart...

My two year old daughter, Maria, has sleep problems. Very bad problems. One of the lasting effects of colic is that it disrupts the natural sleep rhythms first learned at 4 months. Instead of waking up, taking a snack and then gently drifting back to...