So far our trip to Massachusetts has been wonderful. We've already visited our elder daughter and younger son and their families and ar...

Dear Diane and I have four children, now all grown up, either past forty or pushing It. We've been blessed as well with nine grandchildr...

I haven't posted anything for some time now, and can offer no excuse other than busyness. And for the past few weeks Dear Diane and I ha...

Readings: Acts 13:14,43-52; Ps 100; Rev 7:9,14b-17; Jn 10:27-30 Today, the 4th Sunday of Easter, is often called “Good Shepherd Sunday,” a...

Every so often I come across news stories that cause me to suspect that I've wandered into Wonderland. Here are a few that cannot be ig...

A reflection given at the Stations of the Cross on Friday, March 22. As we pray the Stations together I suspect that, like me, most of you...

Readings: Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dan 3:52-56; John 8:31-42 _________________ Torture at the Hanoi Hilton A US Navy pilot who’d been ...

Some months ago, the Catholic television network, EWTN, interviewed Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires. At the time, of course, neither the ...

While I certainly didn't expect Cardinal Bergoglio to be elected Pope, I did, however, expect to be surprised. And for me, at least, his...

Pope Francis celebrated his first Mass as Pope on Thursday afternoon in the Sistine Chapel. This Missa pro Ecclesiae was celebrated with ...

Pope Francis greets Rome and the World. Yes, we have a Pope! And he is Pope Francis, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ca...

We have a new Pope, although the world does not yet know his name. Like so many others I'm sitting here at home glued to the TV screen i...

This brief video is truly remarkable. In it Piers Morgan, a nominal Catholic who disagrees with pretty much everything the Catholic Church t...

Readings: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145; Jn 5:17-30 The other day, while running a bunch of errands in the car, I happened to hear a radio preacher...

Okay, it's time for a little levity amid all the in-depth commentary and oh-so-serious prognostications by the wags and pundits who have...

The Church remains "Pope-less" this evening after the electors of the College of Cardinals took their first secret ballot and, as ...

Readings:  Jos 5:9a, 10-12; Ps 34; 2 Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 It’s a wonderful story isn’t it? The parable of the prodigal son is rea...