Readings: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51; Lk 18:9-14 When we look over the broad scope of these 40 days of Lenten readings, perhaps the most common them...

Note: I wrote the following post back in September 2021, but for some reason never posted it. This occasionally happens, usually because mor...

Boy, when the world goes crazy it tends to take a lot of folks along with it.  For example, did you hear what John Kerry — former U.S. Senat...

I see the Ukraine-Russian “crisis” as the catalyst for some really cool conspiracy theories. And I’ll admit, I’ve probably considered most o...

45 years ago, I was a Naval officer aboard a ship in the Philippines when I got the word that my mom was near death. The cancer she had batt...

Readings: 1 Kgs 12:26-32;13:33-34 • Ps 106 • Mk 8:1-10 Mark’s Gospel has often been described as a Passion narrative with a long introduct...

Readings: Acts 22:3-16; Ps 117; Mk 16:15-18                           The call to conversion by Jesus can come at the most inopportune tim...

Our faith is truly under attack, not just here in the good ol' USA, but throughout the world. I don't have to search for examples of...

Readings: 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Ps 56; Mk 3:7-12 ___________________________ Today we are blessed to celebrate the lives of two 3 rd -centu...

Readings: 1 Sam 9:1-4,17-19; 10:1 Ps 21; Mk 2:13-17 _________________ In Rome, not far from the touristy Piazza Navona, is the church of Sa...

Yesterday I noticed our president complained that a third of Americans apparently never wear masks. The irony, of course, is that this perce...

A brief memory... Years and years ago -- actually during my senior year of high school -- I was introduced to the writings of H. H. Munro (1...

So much of what I read or view or hear in the news I simply ignore. Very little affects me directly, and even when it does, I find I can...

Readings: 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96; Lk 2:22-35 ____________________   Christmas, of course, reminds us that Jesus chose to enter into the world ...