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March 2024

March 01, 2024

God has Given You a Life. Use it with Love.

One of the many pleasures of these years of infirmity and advancing age is the...

April 2022

April 08, 2022

Americans Need More than Performative Lent and Easter Bunny Resurrection

A normal Lent for American Catholics is drenched in petty personal piety and nonsensical “sacrifice”...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Let the Pope Gift You with a Lenten Wash Job and Make You Ready for Heaven

The Holy Father has granted a Plenary Indulgence because of the pandemic sweeping the world....

April 2017

April 12, 2017

What Was Your Best Lent Ever?

I wrote this for the National Catholic Register at the beginning of Lent, but I...

April 11, 2017

You are Not the Worst Thing That You Have Done.

I wrote this for the National Catholic Register near the beginning to Lent. We do not...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Swiss Catholic LGBT Money Targets African Bishops Ahead of Synod

Ka-Ching! Politics of any sort runs on money, and the Church has its own politics....

April 2015

April 04, 2015

Praying the Divine Mercy Novena on Holy Saturday

Our Passover Lamb lies in the grave. The stone rolls over the entrance and settles...

April 02, 2015

5 Ways to Do Holy Thursday for Shut Ins and Shut Outs

Go to mass tonight if you can. You will be blessed. If you're sick or...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

From Hitler to the BTK Killer, How Do You Forgive a Monster?

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away...

March 20, 2015

Help Me to Confront My Own Transgressions

This Lenten Prayer of St Ephrem goes back to the 4th century.

March 14, 2015

Go Look in the Mirror. That is the Only God You’ll Ever See.

Decades ago, not long after my conversion, I had a discussion with an atheist friend...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

If You Get Real with God. He Will Get Real with You.

Corrie ten Boom called it dying grace. St Paul referred to it as "the peace...

February 18, 2015

When You Wander the Wilderness, Remember the Water and the Blood

Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by Satan. Why...

February 18, 2015

Lent: Choose God and Be Happy

Ash Wednesday is a somber reminder that we are going to die one day. This...

February 16, 2015

What are You Doing for Shrove Tuesday?

Lent is just on the other side of tomorrow. Come Wednesday, we're all going to...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

At Gethsemane

Gethsemane is far more than the physical garden where Jesus prayed the night He was...

April 17, 2014

At Gethsemane

Gethsemane is far more than the physical garden where Jesus prayed the night He...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Pope Francis: March 29-30 Will Be a Day of Reconciliation

Pope Francis has set aside this coming Friday as “24 hours for the Lord.”...

March 10, 2014

Lent Is Not About Chocolate

Lent is a time for drawing closer to the Lord. Use this Lenten season to...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Book Review: Doing for the Least of These for Lent

To join the conversation about Mercy in the City, or order a copy, go here. ...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

The Tomb

As evening approached, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea who had become a follower of...

March 29, 2013

The worst crime in history

The worst crime in history was committed by: A cowardly politician A group of corrupt...

March 29, 2013

Pope Will Lead Stations of the Cross for Christian Unity in the MIddle East

Pope Francis will lead the Stations of the Cross tonight in the same Coliseum where...

March 29, 2013

See mother, I am making all things new

March 29, 2013

Stations of the Cross in Honor of Persecuted Middle Eastern Christians

In solidarity with the persecuted Christians in the Middle East, this is Wa Habibi, sung...

March 28, 2013

Pope Francis Washes Feet of Young Inmates, Including Two Young Women

I would guess that the feet washing controversy is settled now. It appears that Jesus...

March 28, 2013

Pope Francis, Holy Thursday and Us

For I was in prison, and you visited me. Pope Francis will wash the feet...

March 28, 2013

Waiting for the Father

"At last, I shall get to meet someone who says he is my father!" The...

March 25, 2013

Pope Francis: Preaching the Gospel Through Word and Deed

Pope Francis will use prayers written by two Lebanese young people when he leads the...

March 25, 2013

Christian Persecution and Blood Red Shoes

Pope Francis is the Pope. If he decides to go for all the pomp his...