As the late Christopher Hitchens wrote in his book, Mortality, we are all born to die. There is no escaping this truth. As the Bible says, we all owe God one death. It was 18th century...
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Glorious Freedom: Giving Thanks to God
Easter is the most festive season of the Liturgical Year. It is a time of both joy and remembrance. It can easily be a time to lose focus as Spring begins and things start to get busy. Just as we are meant to keep a...
Easter: Becoming Apostles of Hope
This year’s Jubilee is called the Jubilee of Hope for a very specific reason. Pope Francis realizes that our world is in desperate need of apostles of Hope, called to rekindle in people’s hearts hope in a future worth...
Wayfinding
In 2010, a father (Martin Sheen) and son (Emilio Estevez) starred in a movie about a father and son. EntitledThe Way, it was filmed on the Way of St James, a stretch of hundreds of miles. Having a myriad of potential...
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Overcoming Evil
In the Gospel for this seventh Sunday of Easter, Jesus is quoted as saying, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one.” (John 17:15) In this week’s Gospel for the...
Ignorance in America
Street interviews have been a staple on TV since Steve Allen’s original Tonight Show. One reason for their success is that they reveal the depth of people’s ignorance. Lately, more and more, it seems like a bottomless...
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Glorious Freedom: Giving Thanks to God
Easter is the most festive season of the Liturgical Year. It is a time of both joy and remembrance. It can easily be a time to lose focus as Spring begins and things start to get busy. Just as we are meant to keep a...
The Mystery of Holy Week
During Holy Week it is important that our hearts do not get tired or overwhelmed with unnecessary things that can distract us from benefiting the most from this special time. The saints surely must have lived this...
Father Joe
In a recent issue of Catholic Vote’sThe Loop, the on-line publication, there was a short feature on a priest who had been murdered in the diocese of Kansas City, Kansas, the other KC as we used to call it when we lived...
Giving One’s Heart
To give one’s heart, completely, to someone who accepts and returns the same complete love: everyone wants this. Most hope to do it in marriage. As Catholics we learn that there are other ways; priests and members of...