
Our Sunday Best
Each and every Sunday morning is a zoo around my house. Trying to get 12 people ready and out the door to Mass is quite

Each and every Sunday morning is a zoo around my house. Trying to get 12 people ready and out the door to Mass is quite

Jesus showed us with astonishing clarity how endless is the love of God and how deep His mercy when He faced His executioners without a

One component of our diaconate formation this year has focused on ministries related to death and dying. To that end, our class watched the movie

I tried to make some sense of things that came undone in Jesus\’ life from the night of the Passover leading up to his death

She’s fearless. She’s charismatic. She’s radiant. A modern evangelist, Annie basks in Christ’s love and shares it with a simple, winsome touch. A heart overflowing

I have two entertaining stories to offer, both related in a manner of speaking. First is a conversation that took place amongst friends of mine. Using

I read the news–all bad it seems–and invariably, I think about God. This predilection, not practiced for most of my adult life, now gives me great

A recent article in The Atlantic proposed that neither activism for or against abortion can solve the real problem behind sex-selective abortion, an issue raised in the recent documentary It’s

The New Evangelization has been called many things, but cheesy is not one of them, and this is a shame. If the New Evangelization is

To my Protestant brothers and sisters: It\’s time to come back to Mother Church. We want you, we need you, we love you. I\’ve spent

CNN’s Pierce Morgan attempted to entangle Senator Rick Santorum into pledging alliance to the potentially new Church Doctrine under Pope Francis that condom use would

I thank you Marcus for taking on the onerous task of acting as my secretary, in addition to your regular duties as my aide, in

Although Lent is winding to a close, there is still plenty of time to work on the many bad habits that hurt our relationship with

The other day I was in the car with my 14 year old headed home from the store. The sun was beginning to set and the

The hardest Lenten penance yet has been having to listen to the pompous fools who dominate the television, radio and internet news media in the

I. Veiling and Truth Theologian Han Urs Von Balthasar once wrote, “We thus [understand] truth as the unveiledness, uncoveredness, disclosedness, and unconcealment of being ….

During the Year of Faith we are asked to understand the nature of faith more clearly. An important question arises: Is the Catholic faith an

Satan, I gotta hand it to ya. You\’re brilliant. Ultimately a loser, but still. Evil and its demoralizing impact on our world is a reality of

The scrupulous man excels at avoiding prudence. He doesn’t want to make judgment calls for fear of being wrong, and he is (perhaps secretly) proud

A Reflective Fictional Story for Lent The sky is dark, as if there is an impending doom that is to be brought upon the face

Scars Last summer I heard a Priest tell this story during his homily of a time he visited a sick man in the hospital. He

Father Dwight Longenecker has published a book just in time for Lent called The Gargoyle Code. It\’s a modern riff on CS Lewis\’s masterpiece, The

To the world, it\’s unsettling to imagine a man with global influence and practical power, moving to a small room, in a house of prayer,

THE FRIEND I have a friend and I am not sure, but I think she is a little younger than I am now. I won’t