I'm tired. I'm tired of the arguments, tired of defending the truth to people who should know better. Sometimes I just want to crawl...

Archbishop Vigano Just a brief post today. My comments will mean nothing in light of what has already been said and will likely be said ...

How nice it is to have a day off...no meetings, no obligations, just a day to take it easy. As it turned out Maddie, the wonderdog, seemed v...

Today's homily includes some of the comments I made in an earlier blog posting . But I felt called by the Spirit to address the current ...

Readings: Ez 1:2-5,24-28 • Ps 148 • Mt 17:22-27 ------------------------- Jesus spent a lot of time shaping His disciples' hearts, open...

This morning I read that the novelist and Nobel laureate, V. S. Naipaul, died yesterday at his London home. His death occurred just a few da...

Earlier this evening we conducted the fourth and final session of our brief summer course in Biblical Typology. It's a big subject, so a...

This afternoon I took a break from my work on the mini-course I'm teaching, and glanced through the local, national, and world news. A f...

Note: The following is a homily unpreached. One of our visiting priests always celebrated our parish's Saturday morning Mass and always ...