The Modus Operandi of Pope Francis
Like many around the world, Catholic or not, I have been trying to figure out Pope Francis. It is always a difficult task to...
Herod, The Baptist and Conformity to the World
While I was away, relishing the world God has created (see my last post), we celebrated the memorial of the beheading of Saint John...
Saint Joseph, A Working Man
Saint Joseph has two 'feast' days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a 'feast'. The first, on March 19th, is his...
Weirdness of Vegas and Wildness of Catalonia
Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas:Â A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record,...
Brendan’s Fantastic Voyage
Today commemorates Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, the 'Navigator', whose main claim to fame - besides his holiness of life -...
The Anti-Depressant Saint
If it 'twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri,...
A Re-Appreciation of What the Mass Really Is
Absence makes the heart grow fonder…
The proverb holds true in the main, but not, we must admit, always. There are many things, and we...
The Holy Archangels and Spiritual Warfare
A blessed feast of the Archangels to all our readers! As Father Scott Murray's article on the Saint Michael prayer points out that this...
Fare Thee Well, NFL
What is in a gesture? A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, to paraphrase fair Juliet, and what matters if...
Walking the Opeongo Line with Saint Ann
A brief note from the now-shuttered, yet still beautifully maintained, parish of Saint Joseph's, on the Opeongo Line, as we, about 90 or so...
