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January 2014

January 20, 2014

A Prophet of Our Times: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. looking towards the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama From...

January 18, 2014

Finding God’s Will

[Brief summary of the retreat I gave to the CCW] We often pray for God’s...

January 18, 2014

Encontrar la Voluntad de Dios

Click here for English A menudo oramos para que se haga la voluntad de...

January 17, 2014

Encuentro con Dios

Una vez oí una historia sobre un párroco que se subió al campanario de la...

January 17, 2014

Cathedral Fortress of Albi

This a French cathedral built throughout the 13th and 15th centuries. While the French elsewhere...

January 16, 2014

Encounter with God

I once heard a story about a parish priest who climbed up the church’s steeple...

January 05, 2014

Epiphany: Light of Christ

[Epiphany Homily]The invention of the light bulb has spoiled our experience of light.Even though electricity...

January 04, 2014

End of 2013 in Alabama

Happy New Year to all my readers! I closed 2013 at a very peaceful and...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

Advent Trust

Bring to mind the image of a toddler walking through the park holding on tight...

December 20, 2013

Christmas Popular Piety

Click here for SpanishThe Christmas season always involves the practice of family traditions such as...

December 18, 2013

Piedad Popular Navideña – Las Posadas

Click here for EnglishLa Navidad siempre implica la repetición de tradiciones familiares tales como quien...

December 15, 2013

Our Lady of Guadalupe in Augusta, Georgia

La Procesion - The Procession The Aztec Dancers - Los Matachines...

December 15, 2013

Homilia para Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Un sábado de 1531 a principios de diciembre, un indio llamado Juan Diego, iba...

December 14, 2013

Advent Repentance

“You brood of vipers! Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.” “Repent, for...

December 13, 2013

Aquinas State Champions!

I am a happy and proud alumnus of Aquinas High School. Today Aquinas defeated Calvary...

December 12, 2013

Our Lady of Guadalupe in Jesup, Georgia

The Catholic communities of Hinesville, Glenville and Jesup gathered tonight to celebrate the feast of...

December 12, 2013

Our Lady of Guadalupe at Saint Teresa, Grovetown

Last night at Saint Teresa of Avila in Grovetown 500 faithful gathered to pray the...

December 02, 2013

Embassy to the Holy See Under Attack?

A few days ago news broke out that the United States was moving its Embassy...

December 01, 2013

First Sunday of Advent

The Archbishop of Milwaukee came to give a conference at my seminary while I was...

December 01, 2013

Watching and Waiting

[Written for The Southern Cross] If I got up early enough as a kid, I...

December 01, 2013

Vigilando y Esperando

Si de niño me levantaba lo suficientemente temprano, veía al vigilante acercarse a la casa,...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving in Plymouth

Even though Christmas may have become secularized, the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it retains...

November 25, 2013

Lima’s Electric Train

When I was a kid in the mid 1980s, President Alan Garcia began the construction...

November 23, 2013

The Jubilee Church: Modern in Rome?

Today I came across a video of the Dives in Misericordia Parish or Jubilee Church...

November 21, 2013

The Martyrs of Lyon

Forty-eight Christians were condemned and executed in the Roman city of Lugdunum, which at the...

November 11, 2013

Light in the Darkness

[Written for The Southern Cross] My first emergency call to the hospital as a priest...

November 11, 2013

Luz en las tinieblas

Mi primera llamada de emergencia al hospital como sacerdote ocurrió pocos días después de llegar...

November 10, 2013

Where, O Death, is your Victory?

[Homily for the 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time] There is one thing in our human...

November 09, 2013

Internet Assessment of Pope Francis

Many months ago I posted on the incredible amount of trash that exists in cyberspace....

November 08, 2013

Dolan to Boehner: Immigration reform matter of great moral urgency

Yesterday Archbishop Dolan of New York wrote a letter to Speaker of the House John...