Note: Today, at our daily Mass, we also celebrated the 50th wedding anniversary of our dear friends, Deacon Claude and his wife, Patricia. T...

I'm beginning to like Donald Trump...a lot! I especially enjoyed his inaugural address even though I wasn't able to watch or liste...

I thought it might be interesting to share a few recent news items out of Israel -- some relate to current events while others touch on the ...

Readings: 1 John 5:14-21; Ps 149; John 2:1-11 ___________________   The wedding feast at Cana provides a prophetic moment, a time for...

Chuck Schumer Ranting For the past few days, since the start of the new congressional session, our federal legislators of both parties h...

We seem to live in an odd world in which the strange has become normalized.   Shakespeare, just another dead white male. Consider the ...

Readings: Jgs 13:2-7,24-25; Ps 71; Lk 1:5-25 Angel Announces the Birth of Samson Some years ago I found myself in a long discussion a...

For almost three years Diane and I have shared our home with a wonderful little dog named Maddie. Now almost nine years old she is a rescued...

I've been re-reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor lately, both her absolutely perfect fiction and her enlightened and enlightening n...