Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his...
Donald Trump’s problem and the problem of many American voters, though separate, are very much intertwined. Trump’s problem is his propensity for stream of consciousness speaking, and it was on full...
It was an interesting weekend for me. I embarked on a journey to a renowned Catholic university, drawn by the allure of a football game. The experience was steeped in tradition, marked by grandiose basilicas, pregame...
One morning the mother of a two-year-old boy was horrified to find him playing with an empty bottle of her husband’s heart medicine. She couldn’t get her son to tell her what had happened to the pills in the bottle, so...
“Ephphatha, be opened.” Today, Jesus orders us to be opened to the Father’s plan and to adopt a sincere concern for all his children across the globe, across the millennia. We are to do so in virtue of our Baptism. The...
Holiness is not just for priests and nuns. There is a universal call to holiness. We can see it in Scripture: 1 Peter 1:15-16 “But as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it...
When on Tuesday, August 13th, the Capuchin Order was celebrating the feast of Blessed Mark of Aviano, it came into my mind and heart how the life of this holy Capuchin priest was filled with his love for God’s peace. In...
During Covid-19, I promised to say a rosary every day until we were over the crisis. When the pandemic finally ended, I continued with the daily prayer because it was now a part of my routine. There were days which I...
The gospel passage for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time forces us to come to grips with a somber, sad reality: some of Jesus’ disciples, in any epoch, become selective and refuse to abide by those words of life with...
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