Brian Mullins is a permanent deacon in the Rockford Diocese who has been assigned by his Bishop to Saint Catherine of Genoa Parish in Genoa, Illinois.
I was just reading some of the comments on this article: Is My Baby Among the 2,200. It’s a bit triggering but I think more people need to be made aware of this situation in Indiana. Some of the comments tell the mothers who are now mourning this heinous collectionContinue Reading
Something I’ve been considering doing for a while now is reviewing some of the books I am reading. This one I received from the Catholic Book of the Month club a while back and had the opportunity to read on a 3-day silent retreat in Saint Louis Missouri at theContinue Reading
In the Gospel today we see St. Luke talking about those who followed Jesus, including some very wealthy women who helped to fund their mission. Luke talks about women a lot. That’s good. We never can forget that without them not only can we not function as a Church, butContinue Reading
I’ve been meditating most of the morning on the Gospel reading for today from the Gospel according to Luke (Chapter 7:36-50). In it, we see a very familiar scene where Jesus has gone into the house of Simon the Pharisee to eat with him and his guests. A woman ofContinue Reading
Someone in a group on Facebook asked about our Conversion Story. I haven’t shared mine in a long time so I thought it was time to put it out there again. Feel free to contact me if you wanna talk about it! I grew up in a small town inContinue Reading
When I was a young teen, I had a conversation with my grandfather. I had been looking through this Bible that he studied out of. It was just a simple King James, no real footnotes or study guides. It was probably not the first time I had looked at aContinue Reading
In today’s first reading St. Paul reminds us that the Church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth. That’s not a popular message in today’s relativistic culture. The simple fact is, either truth exists outside of us and is true whether we believe it or not, or there isContinue Reading