It amuses me that many people wish others a Merry Christmas without any awareness of what that greeting means. The Spanish-speaking peopl...

Prevenient grace? At Mass on December 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Prayer over the Offerings used the term "prevenient...

Once upon a time there was a CEO who was painfully aware that his business was failing, but he was afraid to confront the reasons for the fa...

Odd, isn't it, that perhaps the most talked-about and controversial witness to Jesus and the Christian faith in America today is a prof...

I just returned from preaching a parish mission in Seattle . I asked myself on the plane ride back, "What did you learn from this ex...

I read two articles about priests recently and thought them at odds with each other.   The first article was a review of Why Priests Are ...

I suspect that everyone who reads the Bible has a favorite quote. It is an extraordinary piece of literature, recording at least two mi...