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Aug 7, 2024 | 
aei.org | John Fortier |Donald E. Palmer |Thomas Hicks
Co-hosts John Fortier and Don Palmer are joined by U.S. Election Assistance Commission Commissioner Thomas Hicks.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
Ihave now my full share of years. It is not an extraordinary life by any means, but luckier than many, I think, and happier than many, I think. I have experienced God’s grace and power in my life; there’s been a benign Providence. I’ve sensed the hand of God. There were genuine encounters with the Holy One. I’m confident the Lord takes a personal interest in my life. Catholic teaching tells me that. God desires to be in relationship with me (Psalm 41). My past life is brimful of God’s goodness.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the Law (Galatians 4:4). (Extra)December—the year is fraying out. There’s a sadness when the last page of a calendar appears. The weary year has now run its race. She has known some youth and age and heartbreak and, hopefully, love. The year’s shortest days come now with their latest sunrises and earliest sunsets. There are more than fifteen hours of darkness and nine hours of daylight.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
I find it hard to turn the calendar page to September. September generally brings some of the rarest days of the year, some glorious days that are among nature’s best. There are luminous days and nights that brim with stars. The calming, cooling touch of September breezes bring the relaxation from summer heat. There is the sparkling freshness of a September morning, and the special softening light of September six o’clock. Those soft September twilights fold over the land.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
Have you ever been swept away inside the rhythms and sounds of a piece of music that expresses what words cannot? Have the sounds of a great singer ever seemed to rise like incense as s/he sang? There are times that have a timeless quality of human existence. There are some times of sensing the “deep down of things,” as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it. There is the “more” to life than meets the ordinary eye.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
From childhood on, summer and I have been the best of friends. When I look back, most of the good memories of my childhood are connected with summer. A new summer has begun; we have the gift of another summer. God grant us the good sense to enjoy the remainder of this summer, to exult in summer. Grant us the wisdom to know that there is a time to play, a time to cease from our labors. It is a season of ease. Summer is meant to be the season of leisure days, a time to revel in life.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
Can people be religious and not spiritual? The answer, of course, is yes. “I’m spiritual, not religious” is a common response. Many people’s definition of religion is simply “not hurting anyone.” Many people who leave the Church say they want more from religion that rules. Pope Francis warned against defining holiness simply as strictly following specific laws. The truth of the matter is that religion is not the point, spirituality is.
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Apr 30, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
Western culture has become increasingly secular. The spirit of our age seems to involve the denial of transcendence. Many consider the development of atheism as a sign of progress. There is the growing number of self-confessed atheists. According to a 2008 survey, only two percent of the U.S. population was atheist, while 10 percent were agnostic. In 2018, it was estimated that 26 percent of Americans were atheists.
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Apr 21, 2023 | 
southwalesargus.co.uk | Thomas Hicks
THE family of a seven-year-old boy who died as a result of the contaminated blood scandal that rocked the UK are yet to see any justice for their son. Colin and Janet Smith lost their son, also named Colin, in 1990 aged just seven-years-old after he received blood contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C. Colin received contaminated blood products several years earlier to treat his haemophilia.
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Mar 29, 2023 | 
bridgeportdiocese.org | Thomas Hicks
“My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent is struck down and borne away from me; You have folded up my life, like a weaver who cuts off the last thread” (Isaiah 38:11-12). I long dreaded these words, and prayed God to permit the thread to continue spinning. I grew to love it here and thought the world radiated a stream of things that were bright and beautiful and alive. There was much to enjoy in this world. At many times in my life, I’ve had exhilarating feelings of life.
