I celebrated Mass today with the Apostleship of Prayer staff.  I wore white instead of green, the color most people going to Mass today woul...

I am in East Peoria these days, giving a week long retreat to the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.  On August 21, 1875 a commu...

 I am in Springfield, IL, at the Motherhouse of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis where I am helping direct some seminarians from Kenr...

I am half way between New York City and Albany at St. Joseph Camp which the Sisters of Life are using for their retreat. I am with Fr. Ch...

I have been giving a retreat this week to Nano Nagle’s Sisters in Aberdeen, South Dakota. They are known as the Sisters of the Presentatio...

I'm on the road these days and have not had much time to write. I'm in Cascade, Iowa, a town of 2,000 that is only 20 minutes from D...

A couple weeks ago, during the coldest week (so far) of our Wisconsin winter, I went to Hawaii to give a retreat to the priests and bisho...

I am in Woodstock, Maryland these days, at St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Church, a Jesuit parish, where I am in the middle of a parish mission. Th...

On Saturday I was on Chambers Island in the middle of Green Bay, not the city but the body of water that forms part of Lake Michigan. I was ...

One of the talks I usually give on my retreats is about the perspective that death gives to life. Realizing that we are not going to live on...

I'm at my old "stomping grounds," the Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, located on Lake Demontreville and often re...

A week ago I enjoyed Southern hospitality in Arnaudville, Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. The day before I was at Loyola Universit...

I am in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where I am in the middle of a retreat for the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Je...

I am blessed to be in the second day of an eight day retreat that I am giving to the Carmelite Sisters of Flemington, New Jersey .  So far ...

I'm giving a parish mission at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Odessa, Texas . The focus is on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the paris...

I began a parish mission at St. Mary's in East Dubuque, IL today.  Here's part of what I said in my homily for Sunday Mass. From 1...

 Crystal Cathedral on Friday before Magnificat Day of Faith  On Saturday I had the privilege of participa-ting in the Magnificat Da...

My silence in the blogosphere is due to two things--travels and travails.  First, the travails because they are more important and they are ...

These have been busy weeks as I try to learn how to use a smart phone.  I got one because I thought it would make it easier to access email...

I'm in Monroe, NY these days, giving a retreat to the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate .  This group of consecrated women was founded...