I was watching Game 6 of the Montreal Canadiens–Boston Bruins playoff series when I came to a sudden and profound realization: I don’t know how...

After you stop breathing, they call what is left of you, “the remains.” The remains must be gotten rid of, buried, burned, thrown somewhere, like...

So if you could be an animal, which one would it be?  Or if you could use a color to describe how you are feeling,...

 The National Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in...

The cross is a difficult sell.  For people who want and can have comfort, most needs met, and lot’s of wants satisfied, you won’t get...

In the first half of the 50-year post-Vatican II period, international and national interchurch dialogue commissions addressed a range of doctrinal differences inherited from the...

The following is a homily for the weekend of Sunday, May 11. The owner of the Clippers. The CEO of Target. Banks fined over a...

With the recent canonizations of St. John XXII and St. John Paul II (and the presence at the ceremony of both Pope Francis and Pope...

Can it be that the time has come, in our general American culture and in our Catholic culture as well, to celebrate virginity? For almost...

Doubting Thomas … The very name history has bestowed upon the Apostle Thomas is indeed pejorative. We still use the phrase today to describe someone...

The following is a homily for Sunday, May 4. There are hunches. And there are hunches. Some hunches turn out right, and some prove misdirected....

Yesterday at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Francis celebrated the much awaited canonization of two great contemporary popes – John XXIII (1958-1963) and John...