Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and Rome, in addition...
On the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear the familiar term Kingdom of Heaven. It must be quite important because we hear it often; but do we clearly know what it refers to? Other similar terms are: the Good News, the Gospel, Jesus Christ, the...
There was a 1st grade teacher at an inner-city school who, in the week before Thanksgiving, asked her students to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. As she expected, most of the class drew...
It is unfortunate that within our Catholic tradition, the term “receive the Sacraments” is frequently used to describe our participation. Yet, if we pause to reflect on the deeper implications of this vernacular, we...
You never know when the next miracle is coming, so you just have to keep showing up. Sunny Lawrence James Lawrence is the Iron Cowboy. He once completed 50 Ironman distance triathlons in each of 50 states in 50 days. It...
Once upon a time there was a contemplative monastery filled with good monks. The monastery enjoyed an admirable reputation and the monks were revered as holy men of God. There was one extraordinary brother among the...
At least twice a year we are called to meditate on the miracle of The Cleansing of Ten Lepers with which we are so familiar. (Luke 17:11-19) We know that it is about the need for showing the type of gratitude which is...
A Catholic church in downtown Minneapolis, Annunciation Parish, is currently undergoing its own experience of Good Friday. It was there that, on August 27, 2025, a deranged and violent young man began shooting at the...
In the Book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8), it is written that there is a time to be born and a time to die…a time to kill and a time to heal… The murder of Charlie Kirk or as many are calling it an assassination because of...
Frankly, there are times when we get so aggravated with people or saddened by tragedies that we know exactly what we would do if we were God. However, since we are not God, we do not factor in the near-impossibility of...
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