November 3, 2015
There were plenty of reasons the Kansas City Royals shouldn’t have win the 2015 World Series… but they defied them all, inspiring all with unspoken lessons for the rest of us, especially us Catholic business professionals… Never Quit. Stay Focused. Do what you have to do (ethically) to Stay in the Game.
November 3, 2015
Many leaders have something of an obsession with retention, and a corresponding fear of attrition. Whether we’re talking about employees, customers or even members of a church congregation, we seem to have an almost unconscious desire to do whatever we can to keep anyone from leaving. So we compromise our strat
November 2, 2015
Michael Van Hecke, M.Ed., founder of the only history textbook publishing company for Catholic schools—the Catholic Textbook Project—and seasoned headmaster of a consistently Top 50 ranked Catholic school, will be attending (by invitation from the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education) the Vatican World Congress on Catho
October 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Becket Fund is defendi
October 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 (CATHOLIC BUSINESS WIRE) — The Chinese government is apparently ready loosen to the stranglehold it has had on reproduction in that country since the late seventies—a little bit. Under the new policy, married Chinese couples will be allowed not one, but two children.
October 29, 2015
October 27, 2015
.- With a two-thirds majority vote, the more than 200 bishops gathered for the Vatican’s synod on the family supported Church teaching on hot-button issues such as homosexuality and communion for divorced and remarried persons.
October 27, 2015
Brooklyn, one of America’s biggest sees.
I have been co-leading a ministry, SING (St. Isidore’s Networking Group, Danville, CA), since 2002 which is focused on providing tools and support to those in career transition.
October 13, 2015
It takes special courage to say so, in that business—the business of Anitchrist?…. Read More>>
October 6, 2015
We must all pray for the success of the World Conference on the Family this September and the Synod on the Family following in October. Pope Francis is optimistic about the work to be done and recommendations that will be made to him. Pope Francis will make the decision on any outcomes of the Synod. Pope Francis is particularly concerned about “stress” on the family.
October 6, 2015
As of Monday, October 5, 2015, California became the fourth state in the U.S. with a state law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medications to terminally ill patients, thanks to a former Jesuit seminarian, California Governor Jerry Brown, who signed the bill into law.
September 29, 2015
Now that the U.S.
September 28, 2015
The Super-Harvest Blood Moon on Sunday night…. Read the easy-to-understand, fascinating NASA explanation and video here>>
September 25, 2015
.- Read the full text of Pope Francis’ address to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2015, here:
Mr President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for your kind words.
June 19, 2015
CA SB 128 is legislation currently being considered in two separate committees in the California Assembly. It allows for patients who have received a terminal diagnosis to request from a physician a lethal dose of medication for the purposes of pre-emptively killing themselves. In other words, this legislation advances doctor assisted suicide, sanctioned by th
June 2, 2015
In the course of six weeks, author Sonia Choquette’s father and brother died unexpectedly, then she concluded she did not like her husband of 30 years. What was happening?
May 18, 2015
Three acquaintances of mine have recently lost their jobs in what appears to be unjust circumstances. One was a well-respected director at a Fortune 500 company. A new boss came in and fired her unceremoniously, despite the fact that a few months earlier, she had received a stellar performance review and an above-average bonus.
April 28, 2015
If you are a leader in your company/organization, I’d encourage you to take a look at a 2013 study conducted by Gallup, a company that’s well-respected in the field of employee engagement and retention research.
April 14, 2015
Ave Maria School of Law’s bar passage was ranked #1 in the state of Florida with 83 percent of graduates passing the February bar exam on the first try. This far exceeds the statewide average passing rate of 64.3 percent.