We all get hungry physically for food, or at least I do. If I don’t eat at certain intervals, I get hungry. I think of...
A little joke from The New Yorker a few weeks ago: A priest, a surgeon, and an engineer are playing golf. In front of them...
Much attention has been placed on the police these days. But before them it was teachers. And before them it was clergy. And before them...
With a closing Mass on Sunday, June 28, The Paulist Fathers officially concluded service at St. Peter’s Church and the Catholic Information Centre in Toronto,...
The length of time you are a member of something or practice something is never more important than the present day. You might be a...
“Most Americans are unhappy with their employment.” This was a headline last year in Forbes. I was surprised that it was only 52 percent of...
Exactly 157 years ago today, on July 7, 1858, Father Isaac Thomas Hecker, Father Augustine Hewitt, Father George Deshon and Father Francis A. Baker (themselves...
This weekend we celebrated the birth of our nation on the Fourth of July. This is an opportune time to reflect on the virtue of...
One of the classic American hymns, “God of Our Fathers,” was written by an Episcopal priest to commemorate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in 1876...
On the evening of the release of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment (Laudato Si), a discussion broke out at the Paulist dinner table...
For whom would you dress up? For whom would you like to look your best? God? Not really. Most of us have at best a...
The followng is a homily based on the Scrpiture readings for Sunday, June 21. Derecho. I had heard the word many times in Spanish, but...