Readings: Acts 2:14,36-41; 1Pt 2:20-25; Ps 23; Jn 10:1-10 ___________________________ Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, and for obvious reaso...

This morning, after our usual Saturday morning Mass celebrated by our pastor, we conducted a healing service for those who sought healing of...

What follows is not a long post, but just long enough to give you something to meditate on and pray about.  Planned Parenthood, the premier ...

I came to appreciate the work of Flannery O’Connor over time. In 1962, during my freshman year at Georgetown, I read one of her stories for ...

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy...Oh, how much I am hurt by a soul's distrust! Such a soul profe...

President Biden just spent a five-day family vacation in Ireland. I suppose he thought it a good time to get away from it all, to ignore all...

The first major battle of the Civil War, the battle of Bull Run, took place near Manassas, Virginia, not far from our nation’s capital. Most...

Once, when I saw Jesus in the form of a small child, I asked, 'Jesus, why do you now take on the form of a child when You commune with m...

Readings: Acts3:1-10; Ps 105; Lk 24:13-35 ___________________ The Road to Emmaus began, as conversion often does, in despair or shattered ...

I have a lot of books, or as Dear Diane might tell you, “He has far too many books.” Indeed, had I not bought books, but instead taken the m...

Readings: Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 A few years ago, I read a remarkable novel by Gene Wolfe abou...

Readings for Today's Mass: Is 49:8-15; Jn 5:17-30 _____________________________ I like to listen to radio preachers. Many are quite go...