Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, our home was adorned with a large portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The same one hung in my grandmother’s home. Back in ...
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Pope Francis
When the white smoke appeared in St. Peter’s Square, the frenzy of the crowd could be felt from across the ocean and through our TV screen. Even without knowing ...
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 brief reflection from Give Us This Day earlier this week:
Whenever we take our children to Manhattan, we are confronted by the reality of "these least ...
Pope Francis makes an impromptu visit to an immigrant settlement on the outskirts of Rome. This video is so beautiful it made me cry. (more…)
Put your hands up and step away from the screen. That's the Cliff Notes version of Pope Francis' message for World Communications Day. Okay, I may be taking ...
I've kept quiet through a lot of the ridiculous stuff that goes on out there in the media world lately. To be honest, I just don't have it in me anymore to bang ...
My June Life Lines column, running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
When you sign onto Facebook to check out your friend’s latest vacation photos or ...
It's not easy being green. Today Pope Francis used his General Audience to talk about our stewardship of God's creation. Preach it:
"Creation is not a ...
I was thinking about blogging about the disciples on the Road to Emmaus when I sat down to breakfast today, and then I read Pope Francis' homily on this very ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yeah, hey, so guess what? I'm not the only one who has issues with bad homilies. Turns out Pope Francis feels the same way. And he gets applause when he talks ...
In honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, I thought I’d re-run a column I wrote about one of my favorite saints a while back. I hope to be back here later ...
This time Pope Francis is talking with Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Second interview, just as fascinating, 4,600 words bearing the headline "Pope Francis: ...
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, ...
When I sat down to blog about Pope Francis' interview with America magazine, I started and deleted the post three times. Finally I decided that I have very ...
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 ...
Pope Francis' homily today was so good, I had to post about it immediately. Every time I read something this pope says, it's proof to me the Spirit is alive and ...
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