January is a pretty rough month. February is a close second. Especially when you are a Dean of Students. I…
How is it possible that a young man decides to leave everything behind to enter the seminary? Why would this…
Those of you who are introverts will understand me well when I mention the interior life. We attend to that…
I wish to paint a picture for you of something I felt very strongly recently. The verbal expression of the feeling is this: With Christ we see new colors. I fear my article may bring in too many colors, both old and new, and just confuse you. But I hope by the end you will
Is it good to show sex in a book? Some argue yes. “After all, love is what makes the world go round,” they say. “It’s happening somewhere every hour of every day, so if reading about it makes you squirm, you really need to get over it—read more, not less. It’s what we’re all thinking
Not long ago, my team had a crazy idea. As if seminary life in Rome wasn’t crazy enough, we decided to throw in a little more adventure and pull an all-nighter, making a pilgrimage through the streets of Rome from midnight until five in the morning. That night I had one of those experiences where
The following sounds like today’s gospel passage, but I made a few alterations to make a point. Perhaps you will…
The alarm screams on the nightstand. Morning grips and twists our deepest core and fills our whole self with the gut-wrenching pain we all know as… Monday. Now, this can be a humorous example of what we call suffering. Funny because it is both commonly experienced and commonly over exaggerated. We see T-shirts, coffee mugs
21D—of itself, it signified an aisle seat in the 21st row of the Boeing aircraft. To Mr. Harrison, librarian, the letter signified the World History section of the Library of Congress catalog, while the number brought to mind the miserable century in which he now found himself—the century that had birthed the alien seated next
So I'm sitting in the chapel this morning (on the feast of the Sacred Heart) praying and the question sort of pops into my head: how can you find or live joy through imitating Christ's Crucified Heart? I mean, the gospel for today has Jesus on the cross being pierced in his side; and when