Palm and Passion Sunday
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split...
Seventh Sunday and Forgiving What Seems Unforgiveable
I’ve been hearing confessions now for over fifty years, and I have noticed that there is one sin that comes up more than any...
Sitting Ducks
Christie Blatchford has it right: to paraphrase her gist, men are sitting ducks, or at least like those slow-moving targets in cheapo carnival shooting...
America’s Perfect Storm
When the Constitutional Convention concluded, Benjamin Franklin upon his exit from the event was accosted by a woman who asked him what kind of...
The Ascension of our Lord
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come...
A Brief History of Eminent Atheists
Here is a sober thought. Let us suppose we might be looking for the first atheists in the history of the world. My candidates...
The Dreadful but Hopeful Dream of the Two Pillars
Try to picture yourselves with me on the seashore, or, better still, on an outlying cliff with no other land in sight. The vast...
The Cure of Ars: A Model for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859, the world witnessed the passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest, who...
Twentieth Sunday: Casting Fire Upon the Earth!
I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be...
The Bible, as History and Theology
There was a theologian a few years ago who made quite a splash in the media by criticizing the Bible. A lot of people...