For the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek’s Mission: A Spiritual Reflection
     Enterprise, what a God-haunted mission you are on. All around you there is light, star-shot and splintered in the endless skies through which you...
Lynn’s Resurrection
The significance of today's Gospel, about doubting Thomas—came home to me in a special way on 1 January 1975 when I was informed of...
Turn to Mary and Fight Like Heaven
The Feast (Memorial) of Our Lady of Sorrows came on a Thursday this year and I celebrated Mass that day at St. Ursula church,...
Kavanaugh: Bork or Kennedy?
As the United States mid-term elections loom, peruse Carl Sundell’s take on Robert Bork, who went through his own gruelling Kavanaugh-esdque process three decades...
The Collapse of the Rule of Law
Another day, and more mayhem, with no end in sight. Five police officers assassinated, others wounded, by snipers at a Black Lives Matter protest,...
The New Lepers?
(I have an article coming out on the scientific method - how we develop 'models' to explain the universe, either in some small way...
18th Sunday: The Bread of Life and the Canon of Holy Mass
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. (Jn 6:33)
As we listen to our Lord’s Eucharistic...
The Curious Case of Cardinal Pell
Asked if he had ever asked God, in the words of Christ on the cross, “Why have you forsaken me?” Cardinal Pell responded “No...
Dedication, Devotion and Reparation to the Sacred Heart: The Twelve Promises
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is popularly associated with St. Margaret Mary Alocoque, a nun of the Visitation Order who during the...
 A Pastoral Reflection on Amoris Laetitia
Amoris Laetitia can be interpreted as saying that couples in irregular relationship can be admitted to the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist when...
