Recently I found myself working most of the day at a Church Food Pantry, which is always an eye opening experience. It reminds me of how lucky I am, and also how so many “ordinary” people lack some of the…
I have refrained from writing the past few weeks so I could refocus my thoughts regarding the current crisis. Let me briefly recap. A few major items have been front and center. Some are more important than others. Firstly, the…
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Buona Domenica! This past month has been a profound one for me and this blog, as I have received e-mails and calls from many Priests and lay faithful, expressing their enthusiasm for my recent essay The Emergent Clerical…
Ego Non Te Absolvo… It is Saturday afternoon in the average Parish Church in America. The Priest, perhaps after doing a wedding or a Quinceañera, goes to his Confessional before his Vigil Mass. Hopefully many penitents come and go, having…
“Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth…
This weekend, on the XVII Sunday of Ordinary Time, now after many years of hearing the readings of the Liturgical Year, it always amazes me how much the readings and their lessons (along with those of the Breviary) have informed…
Michaelangelo’s “Last Judgment”, with Christ judging the world. “I was a prisoner, and you visited me.” I know an old, wise man who often says regarding modern Law Enforcement that we “do not have a justice system, but a penal…
Sounding the Alarm In Catholic circles, the news cycle has been dominated by recent news of several high profile bishops, Cardinal McCarrick and Bishop Pineda foremost among them, who are being publically and forcibly called out for their abuse, sexual…
From the XIII Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B So many of us are status conscious, and that necessarily isn’t a bad thing. We want to send our kids to good schools, so they can have a good career, and…
First, let me apologize to any readers that I have not been putting out many posts, mostly because I am in the middle of a move. We will see if I am able to resume fully in about two or…