Back when I was a young boy, there was a TV show I couldn’t wait to watch every week. Come Tuesday nights, I made sure I had my homework...

Poor Thomas… It doesn’t seem to matter that every other disciple doubted at one time or another. It doesn’t seem to matter that the other...

Have you heard of The Laundry Guy? It’s a new TV show staring Patrick Richardson, a self-proclaimed “laundry evangelist.” Richardson...

A friend of mine wrote the following description of attending Mass on an aircraft carrier: It was 1962, the height of the Cold War. I was...

The raising of Lazarus in John 11 stands as hinge between Jesus’ public ministry and his private ministry to his disciples. It represents...

Say Her Name is a movement that emerged from the stories of women affected by institutional violence, particularly women from...

Young children will occasionally wander off, casting their parents into a temporary state of anxiety and frantic searching until the...

First person preaching is an approach that takes one of the characters from the Bible, from Church History, from the communion of Saints...

A young Ukrainian violinist, standing alone in a basement in Kyiv, plays a haunting arrangement of an old Ukrainian folk song, filming...

A Catechetical Gospel. For parishes engaged in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the Lenten Scripture lessons remain with Year...

What if someone were to say to you, “I saw you under the street light” or “I saw you under the umbrella.” Your first reaction would be...

St. Luke sets the scene quickly and with attention to the key details. Jesus has been baptized at the Jordan by John and now a new drama...

My grandfather Roy was born into a family that pioneered on the high plains of north-west Kansas. He began life in a sod house, a home...

I once heard a preacher say that the Ten Commandments were ten ways of God saying, “Don’t hurt yourself. Please, don’t hurt yourself.” A...

When I hear the words of the Sermon on the Mount, I think about a reflection that a young priest in my diocese wrote regarding the scene...

One enduring memory of my first trip to the Holy Land many years ago is a small chapel half-way down the western slope of the Mount of...

In a lovely bay off Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, an Anglican Church sits just off the sea shore. It is a tourist attraction and you...

It’s Saturday morning at the Nazareth Fitness Center. All present are exercising hard: pumping iron, plying the treadmill, pushing...

It’s 10 AM in a small town down the road-- the kind of town that can be found half-way between "just about anywhere," and "no place in...

Her name is Elsie, she’s 86 and she is hard-of hearing. Tonight, she sits at a table in an elegant hall, the lights are low and a handful...