October is Respect Life month, and it is a reminder that we are called to respect all human life from the moment of conception to natural death. 

Octubre es el “Mes del Respeto a la Vida”, y es un recordatorio de que estamos llamados a respetar toda la vida humana desde el momento de la concepción hasta la muerte natural. 

It’s October and our nights are much cooler and our days are getting shorter. Before long we will have our first freeze and another growing season will be a distant memory. This time of year, even spiders are looking for a warmer place to live for the winter. While the interior of our home is off-limits to these creepy arachnids there is one “spider” that is beneficial to invite inside.

Those of us who regularly interact with non-Catholic Christians and others who have left the Catholic faith are often puzzled about how to communicate accurate information about Catholicism in a manner that is readily digestible. We either overwhelm friends or inquiring relatives with long explanations or recommend books that are dauntingly theological; other times we are too simplistic or find ourselves ducking the difficult aspects of the faith.