Happy Easter Tuesday!
In today’s Gospel, we are reminded that Mary of Magdala was the first to witness the Risen Lord, and the first to preach the Good News ...
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faith
I saw on Facebook two days ago that it was the tenth anniversary of the death of one very special parishioner of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Delmar, N.Y.. ...
Lighting the Advent wreath each night for prayers before dinner has long been my family’s tradition. The flickering candlelight growing brighter with each ...
My Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
Why do you remain a Catholic?” That was the challenge issued to me on Facebook a while ...
My post over at Aleteia today:
When it comes to teenagers, you expect a certain amount of eye rolling and apathy, but put those same kids in a faith formation ...
“Why do you remain a Catholic?” That was the challenge issued by Elizabeth Scalia (aka The Anchoress) via Facebook this week, calling me (among many other ...
And the angel said to her in reply,
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will ...
So often when Dennis and I are standing in front of our ninth-grade faith formation class, our goal is to not only teach our students the truths of our faith ...
For weeks now I have been feeling helpless, hopeless, in a constant state of incredulity tinged with despair. So much so I have been completely unable to write ...
"She carries a pearl
In perfect condition
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
"Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly ...
Just a few words on yesterday's ordination and installation of Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany. It was a spectacular Mass, even from the distant and ...
Either we're pro-life or we're not pro-life, and firing an unwed pregnant Catholic school teacher is not pro-life no matter how you slice it. I don't care what ...
This is one of those songs that stopped me in my tracks. I happened to have on K-LOVE, when I heard these words sung so sweetly:
You call me out upon the ...
In these parts, throat blessings are hard to come by. No, make that near impossible. It's just not done. At least not at our parish. So years ago I took it upon ...
I’m just going to come right out and say it because I know some of you are probably feeling the same way and maybe even feeling guilty about it: Why am I still ...
So yesterday's post was pretty heavy, I guess, and I was reflecting on it as I went about my day and thinking about the depths of the darkness. And I realized ...
You will often hear me talk about being in "darkness," and almost always those posts happily wrap up with a light at the end of the tunnel, a glimmer of hope, a ...
This has always been one of my all-time favorite Stephen Colbert clips. So here it is again in honor of the Feast of Christ the King. "The King of Glory," ...
Some people have a problem with the idea of purgatory, which is something I honestly just don't get. Of all our teachings, this is one that is not only ...
I knew from the get-go that St. John the Baptist Church in Madison, Alabama, was an active and vibrant parish. After all, the people there scooped up 550 copies ...