We’ve swallowed a difficult pill called “truth.” The Catholic Church, though founded, sustained, and sanctified by Jesus Christ, is filled with flawed humans.

I visit restaurants, speak with community leaders, and invite chefs into my kitchen to share what unites us all – faith and food. This has enabled me to learn much about the struggles many endured to become American while holding onto their culture and ethnic beginnings.

Through faith and selfless sacrifice, Doss fully gave himself up to God’s will, unconditionally, and at all costs. Beautifully said in John 15:13: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Small and perishable, it was not a food easily cultivated for storage like potatoes, beans, squash, and maize. By the time Christopher Columbus arrived upon the shores of America, the tomato had made its way to Mexico, but stopped short of crossing the border into southwest North America.

I appreciate how the Sacred Heart image focuses on Jesus’ heart, because it shows His passion and desire for people to know His love in order to share in it.

In cooking, as in life, there's a season for everything. There’s a season for crafting fine cuisine, with ingredients sourced from the local farmer’s market. And there’s a season for microwaving frozen dinners from Trader Joe’s.

Do your New Year's resolutions begin with fervor, then flame out by February? Instead, take this opportunity to have your resolutions be more than a checklist of personal goals for the year...

"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are,” penned the world-renowned chef, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, in his 1826 volume The Physiology of Taste. German philosopher and moralist, Ludwig Feuerbach, also believed that “man is what he eats.”

It's ironic that the most romantic day of the year occurs in one of the least romantic months. I remember as a parish priest, there were few weddings but many funerals during February...

Do your New Year's resolutions begin with fervor, then flame out by February? Instead, take this opportunity to have your resolutions be more than a checklist of personal goals for the year...

Le Réveillon, or the awakening (the morning feast following Midnight Mass on Christmas or New Year’s Eve) is an age-old custom inherited by the Louisiana Creoles from their European ancestors and adopted by the Germans who settled in the River parishes of Louisiana...

Our appreciation for existence and nature becomes an appreciation for that First Cause: God, who has spread the earth before us like a table…

Food, however, isn’t just an occasion for honing the cardinal virtues. It also allows us to exercise the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity.

Diets have become a debilitating cult for some. Jesus gives us a humble approach when he says, “Eat what is set before you” (Luke 10:8)

During this more relaxed season, let’s add “prayer” to our “must-do” lists and teach the kids to do the same, by establishing daily prayer habits. Getting on our knees to face each new day, giving everything over to the Lord will help us begin with the proper disposition.

If we are prioritizing subsidiarity, and our money can have a greater impact nearby, we should invest there first.

If we are prioritizing subsidiarity, and our money can have a greater impact nearby, we should invest there first.

Eating is necessary for survival, but enjoying a meal together is transformative.

The Jews of the day would have immediately made the connection with Passover, a memorial feast that the Jews have celebrated every year since God set them free from slavery in Egypt, about 1,250 years earlier.

We’re called to evangelize. If you don’t know where to start, consider extending an olive branch and serving really good food!