text “Is Jesus asleep in your boat?” As Pope Benedict XVI prepared to step down from the bridge of the “The…
text “The human mind and a parachute are helpful only when they are open.” The calendar next to her bed contained the picture of a man falling from a…
text Third Sunday of Easter 2020: On the Road While memories of the global disaster brought about by the new coronavirus at Easter time of this…
text “How wonderful is it to be alive?” In a stunning little book entitled I Never Saw Another Butterfly, an…
text Second Sunday of Easter: Divine Mercy Today in the midst of the world-wide pandemic known as COVID-19, the Catholic Church pauses to…
text “Faith is not genuine unless it is tinged with a trace of doubt.” Whenever I am experiencing moments of doubt regarding my faith, I head for St…
text Easter 2020: The Festival of Hope Last night, after watching the televised celebration of the Easter Vigil from the Shine of the…
text “Jesus Christ is Risen! Now What?” Entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located in the Old City of…
text Palm Sunday 2020: Welcoming Salvation Every year, in some way most Christians reenact Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on this Palm Sunday and…
text Fifth Sunday of Lent 2020: The Power of Forgiveness Death is very much in the news media and in our minds and hearts these troubled days. Today’s…
text “Holding hands with the dying.” As we venture into the Fifth Sunday of Lent, our gospel reading from John (11…
text Fourth Sunday of Lent 2020: This Joyful Season “Count it all joy…” Years ago, when I was still a mere student in the Dominican order, my German…
text “There is none so blind as the one who will not see.” Entering the Fourth Sunday of Lent, traditionally known as “Laetare Sunday” …
text Third Sunday of Lent: Water of Life This Sunday appears to be unprecedented in the churches of the Archdiocese of Chicago and elsewhere…
text “Do not harden your hearts.” Reaching beyond the confines of our comfort zones becomes the theme of today…
text Second Sunday of Lent: Light in the Darkness In years to come, the spring of this year is more likely to be remembered for the outbreak of the…
text “Before enlightenment, the laundry. After enlightenment, the laundry.” Waiting patiently in line at the local grocery store, I was fascinated with…
text First Sunday of Lent: Getting Clear Love in the Time of Cholera, the great novel by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez,…
text “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Fat chance that any of us will escape from being drawn into temptation, but…
text “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Be careful or soon we will live blind and toothless." A few years ago, as I was preparing to eat my delicious Indian meal at the…
text “Go to heaven for the climate. Go to hell for the company.” Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died on April 21, 1910…
text “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” Searching for memorable images that would capture the imaginations of his…
text “The Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.” Growing up in the shadow of the third Joyful Mystery, the Church of the…
text “Discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary: the call to discipleship.” Perhaps it is time to re-imagine the significance of our personal call to…
