Usually the Church celebrates a feast on the death date of a saint.  That is their "birthday" into heaven.  But for three people w...

Today is the feast of St. Peter Chrysologus, a bishop and doctor of the Church whose preaching was so inspired that he was called "Go...

The readings at Mass today (15th Sunday Ordinary Time, Cycle B) are about vocation. In the first reading (Amos 7: 12-15) we hear about the c...

I'm giving a parish mission this week at Mary Immaculate Church in Farmers Branch, Texas , a suburb of Dallas. I'm preaching at th...

Today's first reading from the Prophet Ezekiel, Chapter 47, paints a picture of a tiny trickle of water that flows "from the right ...

I'm at St. Paul's Church in Fenton , Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where I preached at five Masses this weekend in order to drum...

On the last day of the calendar year, the Gospel reading at Mass is the Prologue of John, the first 18 verses of John's Gospel. Prior t...

Yesterday morning and today, as part of the parish mission I'm giving in Affton, Missouri, I went around to the grade school classrooms ...