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...

Did you ever think that you don’t know what is best for you? You make decisions, and they turn out to be sour, fruitless and...

As we look forward to celebrating Easter, I am reminded that all of us are disciples of the Jesus who rose from the dead and...

Some believers cut Judas a little slack. They say he had a plan. He did not intend for Jesus to be crucified. Judas tried to...

Everyone in ministry is a wounded healer, and I am no different. It is hard to say what my expectations were when I entered the...

What do we think about destiny? Often it is claimed, but really, do things have to happen? Was our nation destined to be as it...

Russ Douthat is a New York Times columnist. He often writes, surprisingly, about religion. In last Sunday’s column he wrote: “Here is a seeming paradox...

I was at an IHOP recently – the by-product of being out on a parish mission where meals were not served in the rectory –...

The second Sunday of every April is the final round of the Master’s Golf tournament at the beautiful Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. I...

Part of the additional heartbreak in the tragedies we have seen in the lost jet from Malaysia and the town swept away by mud in...

Some one said that prayer is like plugging your smart phone or electronic device into the wall or another computer to recharge or download something....