I trust your home parish, like ours, is playing an active role in the celebration of the Year of Faith inaugurated four months ago by Pope B...

I've devoted a few recent posts to crosses and their presence among us. I think it's important, though, that our veneration should n...

Dear Diane and I prefer to drive rather than fly whenever we travel around this beautiful country of ours. For me this is one of the major b...

What exactly is a public cross? Well, first, I don't include the crosses one encounter s on churches or in churchyards and cemeteries. A...

Although I am not an expert on either Islam or Sharia Law, I have taken the time to read the Qur'an. In fact, I've struggled through...

Clipper, in Nichols, looking for chickens in the snow Growing up as a youngster I lived first in rural Connecticut and then in suburban ...

Readings: Heb 10:11-18 • Psalm 110 • Mk 4:1-20 There’s an entrance antiphon from a Sunday in ordinary time that always strikes a chord wit...

Most of the news we're exposed to today is, quite simply, good, bad, or ugly -- too little of the first and far too much of the others. ...

Every so often we need a laugh. A friend sent me a link to the below video hoping it would cheer me up after last evening's Patriots...

Over the years the city of Rome has been making an increasing number of its unique archaeological sites accessible to visitors. The latest s...

The table beside my living room easy chair is always weighed down with, in Dear Diane's words, "an unsightly pile of books." T...

I'll confess at the start: I'm not much of a moviegoer. In any given year I probably go to a movie theater perhaps three or four tim...

I lost a friend this week. He wasn't really a close friend. He and I didn't hang out together or socialize. In fact our relationsh...