Over the past few weeks, folks here have talked about the role of Eucharist in their lives and in the liturgy, with a lot of people saying as long as there is ...
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I was going through some old posts this week as I was preparing for a radio interview, and I found this post from March 29, 2103. I thought it might be good to ...
This time Pope Francis is talking with Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Second interview, just as fascinating, 4,600 words bearing the headline "Pope Francis: ...
When we got into our, um, conversation last week about good vs. bad liturgy, people from both sides of the spectrum chimed in with what they thought would be ...
I had the honor of addressing 50 Catholic prison chaplains on retreat at Notre Dame Retreat House in Canandaigua, N.Y., this week. And while my presentation was ...
All of my regular readers here at NSS know that honesty is the name of the game. I always try to tell you the truth, even when it's not easy or pretty. You've ...
Although I can't respond to every blog response to my "Losing My Religion" and subsequent posts, I do want to include the comment I left over on OSV Daily Take ...
"I want to tell you something. What is it that I expect as a consequence of World Youth Day? I want a mess. We knew that in Rio there would be great disorder, ...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and ...
Oh, no I've said too much. I haven't said enough...
I almost walked out of Mass in the middle last night. Seriously. And I was not in my own parish so don’t ...
As I watched the events in Rio unfold throughout the World Youth Day celebration, I found myself tearing up over photos of three million people crammed on a ...
Yesterday, when I posted my Letter to the Editor canceling my subscription to Spirituality & Health magazine over its anti-Catholic agenda, a few folks on ...
My June Life Lines column. It must have struck a chord because I am receiving tons of private emails from total strangers who all have experienced this in one ...
"From a spiritual standpoint what I try and do as a physician is that even if I can’t cure the situation, even if I can’t cure the condition, if even I can’t ...
"Why do you look for the living among the dead. He is not here; he is risen." Luke 24:5-6
Indeed, he is risen. Alleluia, Alleluia!
Peter never really used to be one of my favorites from Scripture, but the older I get, the more beloved he becomes. He gives me comfort because I identify with ...
Because by your holy cross, you have redeemed the world.
Just back from Stations of the Cross at the beautiful Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in ...
I'd like to backtrack for a minute and make sure you all had a chance to read what I think is a critical and spot-on portion of Pope Francis' homily -- directed ...
Earlier this week, we sat around our kitchen table as a family and broke the unleavened bread made by Chiara’s faith formation teacher as a Holy Week exercise ...
This morning I came across a post over at Momastery that really stopped me cold. I mean, I do my little charitable stuff here and there, but I have never done ...