It just so happened that on a recent trip to Birmingham, Alabama, I began reading a biography of today's saint, Catherine of Siena. It w...

The liturgical calendar the Jesuit St. Peter Canisius on December 21, the date of his death in 1597, but today the Society of Jesus celebr...

On this day in 1541, seven months after Pope Paul III gave official approval to the founding of a new religious order, the Society of Jesus,...

I celebrated Mass this morning for the 600 students and faculty of St. Anthony's High School in Milwaukee .  I found it a good opportuni...

Every First Sunday of Lent we get a gospel passage about the temptations of Jesus.  Right after his baptism in the Jordan--when, though he d...

I led a day of recollection today for the seminarians at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee. It was a quiet and prayerful day and wh...

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...