When we start out asking the wrong questions, we’ll inevitably end up with the wrong answers. The legal scholar in today’s Gospel begins well enough, asking Jesus what he must…
The human progress that Christ wants to promote is that of whole persons in their transcendent dimension and their historical dimension, in their spiritual dimension and their bodily dimension.Whole persons…
At first, it seemed incongruent that my mother would die on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Mom was given to easy laughter and generous hospitality, which made her…
In the time of Jesus, society did not care for sick people as it does today. Those who came to the Lord to be healed of their diseases did not…
The question of theodicy has always plagued us: Why does evil exist? How can a good God allow bad things to happen— doesn’t that mean God is either not all-good…
We all know what it’s like to dose off at inopportune—even dangerous—times. The movie isn’t done yet. The professor is mid-lecture. There’s an hour left in the drive and you’re…
When I was growing up, my family celebrated the Queenship of Mary by participating in a rosary procession between two local parishes. We began with Mass at one church, processed…
Today we remember St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan Conventual whose death occurred at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland in 1941, after volunteering to replace Franciszek Gajowniczek, a father and husband…
For the longest time, the Transfiguration was something I simply could not wrap my spiritual arms around. It seemed too far removed from my reality, too mystical for my mundane…
In today’s Gospel, Jesus shares two parables of the Kingdom of God. In the first, he compares the Kingdom to a mustard seed. What does this imply? First, that the…
