The following is a homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Dec. 22. What shall I get so-and-so for Christmas? Or where will we go...

I took ballroom dancing class one summer while a priest in San Francisco. Don’t ask. Anyway, we were taught all sorts of Latin dances. I...

One of the most striking things about the priestly/Paulist formation process is its “marathon-esque” quality. True, in the thick of things it can feel like...

The following is a homily for the third Sunday in Advent, Dec. 15. When the explanations started coming for the Metro North train crash two...

Some people say that we should not be praising Mandela because he was a communist. He was, and then he grew out of it with...

The following is a homily for the second Sunday in Advent, Dec. 8. So I was waiting to board a plane, standing next to a...

Happy Advent! This liturgical season focuses on the coming of Christ and of waiting for Him. Of course we recall the long time of waiting...

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams concludes a longer poem “Advent Calendar” with the words: He will come like dark.One evening when the bursting redDecember sun draws...

It is a time of endings and beginnings. This past Sunday, we liturgically marked the end of the church year with the celebration of the...

The first holiday celebrated by English settlers in America was Thanksgiving. In 1621 William Bradford, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, invited the neighboring Indians...

Those of us who were alive at the time generally remember where we were when President Kennedy was killed. I was at St. Paul’s College...