Taking off on Pope Francis’ urging “to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them …...

Now and again I leave a social event because of what I call a “trigger.” This is memory being awakened to a past way of...

Pope Francis has done it again, and as usual done it on the world stage. Last Sunday in Jerusalem, he urged the president of Palestine...

On Pope Francis’ return trip from World Youth Day in Brazil to Rome, he was asked about people who are gay. As he concluded his...

Popeye, the cartoon, was a normal person with human weaknesses. Then there would be a crisis. The crisis or threat seemed to be winning. Then...

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...