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  • Christmas in Dachau was not the same as Christmas in New Jersey

    Christmas in Dachau was not the same as Christmas in New Jersey

    They were both 28 years old and they both loved JESUS—–they also both loved Christmas     by Larry Peterson Thank you Founding Fathers. You have truly left us Americans blessed. I am a Catholic and I went to Mass this morning without a care in the world. For many Catholics the world over this…

  • Chaplain Emil Kapaun—from Farm boy, to Priest, to Medal of Honor Recipient and Future Saint*

    Chaplain Emil Kapaun—from Farm boy, to Priest, to Medal of Honor Recipient and Future Saint*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Emil Joseph Kapaun, was born on a farm near  Pilsen, Kansas, in 1916. Pilsen was a tiny town of less than 100 people named after after the city of Pizen in the Czech Republic. His parents were Czech immigrants and devout Catholics. Emil, besides being an excellent student,…

  • Mother’s Day—After Years of Dreading It I Can Finally Embrace It

    Mother’s Day—After Years of Dreading It I Can Finally Embrace It

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson (updated  from 2016 article) Mother’s Day is here and I will tell you immediately that it has never been my favorite holiday. My mother died 56 years ago. She had just turned 40. (She had Leukemia and if you had Leukemia 56 years ago, you were “toast”.)  For…

  • A Tailor’s Inspiration Brought the World a Pope *

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson The influence of St. John of the Cross, the great poet and mystic of the 16th century, reached across the centuries and inspired a simple tailor in Nazi occupied Poland to aspire to sainthood. In turn, this simple man became the catalyst for another man who was…

  • Asia Bibi–Wife & Mom; Catholic/Christian and "Blasphemer"; Sentenced to Death for Loving Jesus

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson  Asia Bibi is a Catholic wife,  mother of five and our sister in faith. She will stand before the Supreme Court of Pakistan during the month of October, 2016, and hear the final verdict as to whether or not she should be executed by hanging. You see, Asia…

  • The "Protector" Saint of the Mexican Border*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Sometime during the early summer of 1973, Jesus Gaytan and two friends began making their way north to the United States. They were planning to ‘”sneak” across the border and find work as farmhands. They did not care where, they just wanted to work. At the border their…

  • My Pal Jumbo Never Went To Mass Until—-Then He Never Missed Mass Again*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson *This column also appeared in Aleteia on Easter Sunday, 2016 Jumbo Feeney and I grew up together in the Bronx and we have been best friends since “Hector was a pup”. We can go a year without talking to each other and when we get on the phone together it…

  • This Year Holy Week Sends a Perfect Storm: Embrace Its Power

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson If you are Catholic and have not been to Mass or confession in thirty years or more you might think that forgiveness is beyond your  grasp and that there is “no hope” for you. You might even think that if you walked into a church you would turn into a…

  • I LOVE Christmas—No Matter What

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson Turkey Day is over and  now the 2015 Christmas odyssey is underway. My personal pilgrimage began  Sunday at 5 AM, as I prepared my wife’s medications for the week. There are fourteen different pills she takes at different times during the day for varied reasons and I…

  • My Mother's Day Paradox: I Cannot Wait for it to End

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson                    Mother’s Day is here again and, I have to tell you, it is not my favorite day. Please do not misunderstand,  I certainly have nothing against Moms. Heck, my wife was a mom, my sister is a mom, my…