13 November 2017
13 November 2017 Memorial of Saint Stanislas Kostka, S.J. Some people, reading today’s gospel (Lk 17:1-6), think that they have discovered some ...
12 November 2017
12 November 2017 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s gospel (Mt 25:1-13) ends with the admonition, “stay awake, for you know neither ...
11 November 2017
11 November 2017 Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop When I was a child, our family frequently visited the farm in Northern Illinois run ...
10 November 2017
10 November 2017 Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church Today is Martin Luther’s Birthday. No little publicity has come ...
9 November 2017
9 November 2017 Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome Today we celebrate and recall with great affection all of you who have ...
8 November 2017
8 November 2017 Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time A temptation has always existed to reduce religion to the lowest common ...
7 November 2017
7 November 2017 Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time In today’s epistle taken from the Letter to the Romans, Paul admonishes the ...
6 November 2017
6 November 2017 Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Perhaps there is no greater presence of social land mines than the dinner ...
5 November 2017
5 November 2017 Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time The gospel admonition that we are not to let our left hand know what our right hand is ...
4 November 2017
4 November 2017 Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop We don’t like to talk about our failure. But, the fact of the matter is that most of ...