New Year, New Kanye People love conversion stories. This is a fact that transcends religion and culture. This is especially true when this involves some degree of vindication of the other side’s claims. Whether the claims are of ultimate metaphysical…
One piece of news that may have escaped readers during the Christmas Holidays was one from December 27, at which time the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, announced that their Bishop, Daniel Conlon, was leaving the Diocese and taking a medical…
After the Octave of Christmas and its attendant celebrations, it is sometimes easy to forget the subtle but powerful sense of expectation which is conveyed in the last days of Advent. The “days after Christmas” before the Epiphany seem rather…
Wisdom, Adonai, Root of Jesse, Key of David, and all the Old Testament titles of Our Lord are those which even now we use to beg him for the realization of what the Lord God promised long ago “at sundry…
The Liturgical Traditions surrounding Advent have mystified me, in the truest sense of the word, for decades. Unfortunately, because they are wedded in most people’s minds to traditions proper to Christmas, it is difficult, unless true effort is made, to…
On December 13, 2019, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, announced that he was taking a medical leave of absence due to ongoing problems with anxiety and depression. It seems that most have received the news with compassion, understanding and…
(Editorial Note: Due to a publishing error, some of you especially who receive e-mail updates may have missed the latest article, Extortion, Lies, and Intimidation. Click to the link in the last sentence to read.) Dear Readers: While I am…
Witness to Sorrows It was a hot but sunny late summer day when I met Father Anthony*, a Priest who was just a few years shy of his fiftieth anniversary as a Priest. We sat down in the cozy foyer…
The word ‘crisis’ in my opinion is one of the most overused words in the English language, largely because of sensationalistic journalists who, in order to sell stories on the news of the day, abandon all sense of time and…
Trinity Sunday is always that Sunday which makes theologically literate people cringe. Some people used to call it ‘Heresy Sunday’ or something similar, because so many Priests and Deacons seemed unable to articulate in a convincing, cogent way the Supreme…