MY heart is filled with gratitude to God as I think of my family gathering…
WE now have Fr. Ramon Reyes as our new associate pastor at Incarnation Church. He’s…
IT’S my associate pastor’s last Sunday in our parish. The archbishop assigned him to another…
HAPPY Trinity Sunday! It’s the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and…
“THE Holy Spirit is real!” our seminarian, Hieu Nguyen, expressed to me as he went…
MARTIN Buber, the Jewish theologian, tells the story of an encounter between a jailed rabbi…
YOU’VE often heard me say that we’re living in the most challenging time in this…
“I GIVE you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so…
IT’S a special day to celebrate the gift and contributions of motherhood to life and…
AS we commemorate this Palm or Passion Sunday, Jesus’ entrance into the city of Jerusalem,…
IN his book, “Let Us Dream, The Path to a Better Future” Pope Francis acknowledges…
I STILL think of last Sunday’s (March 20) Old Testament Reading on God’s presence through…
NOWADAYS, people would tell me, “The world has so many problems, Father.” “That’s right,” I…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, causing the horrific destruction of human lives and the country, has…
AN old Cherokee story goes like this: An old man says to his grandson, “There’s…
AT times, the thoughts of past scholars are striking because of how they relate to…
Reading Thomas Merton’s s letters in the book Thomas Merton, A Life in Letters has…
What makes education Catholic? It’s a worthy question that many of us—bishops, priests, and laypeople,…
“The Lord’s call is not an intrusion of God in our freedom; it is not…
“THE Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring…
There is so much richness of meanings in this Sunday’s (January 16) Gospel that it…
WHEN I was in the college seminary, an American Jesuit priest, Father Thomas Greene, wrote…
FOR my New Year’s message, I’m borrowing Fr. Terrence Klein’s reflection in America Magazine on…
A warm Christmas greeting to you and your families! I hope you’re enjoying the Christmas…
JOY! It’s the theme for this Third Sunday’s Advent Liturgy. As a matter of fact,…
WE are now journeying into the Second Sunday of Advent. Last week, we lit the…
Nick Ortner of The Tapping Solution writes this story: “A blind boy sat on the…
I LIKE Gerald Darring’s down-to-earth description of the Kingdom of God in his book, To…