The blessings of work
I was 16 years old and newly graduated from high school when I was hired for my first real summer [...]
I was 16 years old and newly graduated from high school when I was hired for my first real summer [...]
It was with genuine regret, perhaps even a touch of personal dismay, that I learned of the formal closing of [...]
God calls every single individual creature into being, and pronounces it “good.” That goodness comes from the fact that the [...]
Come Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, we will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the solemn opening of the Second Vatican Council. [...]
Some 17 years ago, a remarkably delightful and generous aunt left me a bequest in her will with the wonderful [...]
A tourist goes to foreign lands in order to see new things; a pilgrim travels to become new. Because every [...]
These are days when we find ourselves visiting the crib scenes which decorate our homes and parish churches everywhere. Apparently [...]
A generation or so before Jesus of Nazareth, two great early rabbis rose up in Israel, namely Shammai and Hillel. [...]
Genuine ecumenical dialogue can never be fruitful merely through contrasting newspaper articles without personal conversation on a face to face [...]
As I mentioned before, the experience of an entire Lent on Patmos Island without full participation in the Eucharist provided [...]