Readings: Ez 18:25-28: 7; Ps 103; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21: 28-32 _________________ Some years ago, a friend, a retired a State Trooper, told m...

Given the busyness of my life in recent weeks, I neglected to post this brief weekday homily. Better late than never, I suppose. ----------...

This year, a year in which we mark the centennial of the start of the First World War, we can only look back in sad amazement at the tragic ...

Every so often I come across a few isolated news stories that together offer more than a glimpse into the decay of our once-civilized societ...

Nothing surprises me anymore. I don't know whether the world has degenerated into absolute weirdness or that nothing can escape the atte...

Readings: 2 Thes 3:6-10, 16-18 • Ps 128 • Mt 23:27-32 Today's Gospel passage includes two of what are called the “seven woes” – seve...

ISIL The citizens of the civilized world, as well as those of us who live in the once-civilized world, are understandably appalled by th...

We have in recent years (decades?) so misused the language that it has become a challenge to comprehend exactly what some folks are trying t...

For those of you who consider the ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria to be no more than a local problem, one limited to the always volatile M...

I've been reading and re-reading a lot of von Balthasar lately, something that demands far more mental effort than I am accustomed to ex...

A few weeks ago the construction of our new parish church was completed. It's been a long time coming. The original church of St. Vinc...

After posting my earlier comments on the rise of chaos in the world, I thought my readers might find a few related articles of interest. Her...

Here I am, just a few weeks shy of my 70th birthday, and I can't recall a time in my life when both the nation and the world seemed to b...

Readings: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 _________________________ Almost fifty years ago, it what now seems to be ...

In our nation's capital President Nothing seemingly ignores what is happening in northern Iraq. The vicious Islamists of ISIS have in re...