Today's Gospel (Mark 10: 35-45) is preceded by Jesus' third prediction in Mark's Gospel about his impending suffering, death, an...

While it's very mild (59 degrees F) today in Springfield, IL where I am helping with a retreat for seminarians from Kenrick Seminary i...

At the Last Supper, Jesus faced three dilemmas and offered one solution.  The dilemmas were the result of his love. The greatest act of lo...

In today’s Gospel ( Matthew 22:34-40) a Pharisee, who was also “a scholar of the law,” asked Jesus a question that teachers and rabbis w...

On September 14 we celebrated the Exaltation or Triumph of the Holy Cross.  I gave the following homily to a group at the Sacred Heart Retre...

August 30 was the feast of St. Jeanne Jugan, the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. I celebrated Mass at St. Joseph’s Home in ...

It was in the form of a serpent that the evil spirit entered into the garden of innocence and tempted the first human beings.  Thus it shoul...

I got up early this morning and spent about a half hour on the treadmill getting exercise both physically and spiritually as I prayed the ro...

I'm in St. Charles, Missouri, right outside St. Louis these days for a parish mission at Saints Joachim and Ann parish.  As always, I ...

Though I like music, I'm not much of a concert-goer. But when Fr. Phil Hurley, S.J., our director of youth and young adult ministry, as...

As I come to the end of my retreat with the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence , I’m grateful for a surprise favor: learning about their fo...

"Turn, Turn, Turn." Folks of a certain generation will recognize those words as the title of a song by the Byrds that came out in...

Yesterday, Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter, I came upon a favorite sermon of mine in the Breviary. It's from St. Peter Chrysologus ...

Last night I went to St. Mary of the Hill Parish to speak to their "Faith in Recovery" group . What is " Faith in Recovery ...

On Saturday, April 10, I was honored to preach at a special Mass honoring Fr. John Hardon, S.J., during the annual conference of the Institu...

On my recent trip to St. Louis for a parish mission at St. Dominic Savio Parish, I met a young woman who resonated with my message of seeing...

For the 533rd time, a group of Catholics in the Milwaukee area gathered for what they call an "All Night Eucharistic Vigil of Reparatio...