There are two times a year when I, growing up in the Church, and now as a Priest for several years, have seen Priests generally fumble at a Sunday Mass Homily: The Sunday of the Holy Trinity (which some more…
I believe it is a safe thing to say, perhaps even self-evident, that for the average Catholic, there are only two Priests on their radar screen: their Parish Priest(s), and the Pope. Even though the Priest says the name of…
“Sicut est zelus amaritudinis malus qui separat a Deo et ducit ad infernum, ita est zelus bonus qui separat a vitia et ducit ad Deum et ad vitam aeternam.” – Regula Benedicti, LXXII. Just as there is a bad zeal which…
Last September, for those who have the luxury of viewing daytime television, made for arresting drama. Typically during the work day, when I am in my office, I have CNBC in the background where I listen to the Financial News. …
For the first third of this Month of October, I decided to take a little break from blogging. These are the times I take to go out with life in front of me, and try to do the duties that…
One of my main complaints regarding the reactions to the current crisis is that many good people are high on anger but low on ideas. Moreover, most people, with the best of intentions, tend only to be able to look…
The average person today is awash with information about events all over the world. A person in Nebraska can with a flick of his finger see what a friend is having for dinner in Nepal. The endless stream of novelties…
Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing. Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, “Comfort, comfort my People” (Isaiah 40:1), and the description of the Messiah…
If you asked a Pope, especially one in the Middle Ages and even up till Trent, what was the number one thing they feared, most Popes would have said their greatest fear was a General Council. Many secular princes, when…
The modern world in which we live is replete with references to rights. We claim rights to free speech, to religion, to assembly, and more. These seem to most, who live in liberal democracies, to be part of the basic…