Articles by John Carroll | The Catholic Miscellany

I met recently with someone whose new company has designed a software program to help sales professionals maintain a healthy level of sales activity while staying in touch with their clients and prospective clients. The […]

I take very seriously the Profession of Faith in the Liturgy of the Mass and believe everything it contains. I also believe that living on this planet at this time is a divine appointment, an […]

A friend of mine has just taken the standardized entrance examination for admission to law school. Thousands of people do this each year in America, so it should be no big deal, except that my […]

An important and often overlooked pitfall of overconsumption of media information is what we do with the news stories we see and hear. Tales of high-profile personalities involved in marital infidelity fill the tabloids, television […]

“Everyone needs a vice,” my friend told me some years ago. His was finding and restoring old Volkswagen Beetles. The truth to his statement is that the human condition invariably includes a bad habit or […]

You’ve likely had an instant, sometime in your life, when you felt compelled to do something. You knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was the right thing to do, yet you hesitated. […]

You’ve likely had an instant, sometime in your life, when you felt compelled to do something. You knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was the right thing to do, yet you hesitated. […]

When work starts getting you down, especially in a way that it hasn’t before, you have a great opportunity to reflect and decide how to respond. It may be that no significant response is necessary, […]

Let’s say that you want to serve God’s church as a Catholic priest. If that job were to be listed as a help wanted ad, the position description and accompanying detail might appear as follows: 

Let’s say that you want to serve God’s church as a Catholic priest. If that job were to be listed as a help wanted ad, the position description and accompanying detail might appear as follows: […]