7 January 2016
7 January 2016 Memorial of Saint Raymond of Penyafort The Christian understanding of “the world” is a complicated concept. The Christian is ...
6 January 2016
6 January 2016 Wednesday after Epiphany Our Faith teaches us that Jesus was true God and true man. And so, as we celebrate the Epiphany, we are ...
5 January 2016
5 January 2016 Memorial of Saint John Neumann, Bishop I am writing this on my last evening in Rome, where I have come to give retreats. Rome is ...
4 January 2016
4 January 2016 The most Holy Name of Jesus What shall we call people? People we don’t know, for example. During the days of Communism, in the ...
3 January 2016
3 January 2016 The Epiphany of the Lord Hard to calculate these things, of course, but it was likely just under 2,000 years of history since ...
2 January 2016
2 January 2016 Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church People acquire the habit of ...
1 January 2016
1 January 2016 The Octave Day of Christmas Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God “When eight days were completed for his ...
31 December 2015
31 December 2015 The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas “Children, it is the last hour” (1 Jn 2:18). What a fitting verse to begin our mass ...
30 December 2015
30 December 2015 The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas Today’s first reading from the first letter of John presents us with a stark warning: ...
29 December 2015
29 December 2015 The Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas A good many books, movies and magazines enjoy presenting alternative and revisionist ...