text Robbing Peter to Pay Paul There is an assumption that the phrase, “Robbing Peter to pay Paul,” is…
text The Second Sunday of Advent: A New Way This is the darkest part of the year, at least in the northern hemisphere, but the darkness is not…
text First Sunday of Advent: Waiting and Watching Although not much heralded in the news media, the now-annual Christmas nativity scene was erected…
text “I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten.” Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text Solemn Feast of Christ the King: The End is Clear The liturgical year draws to a sad end this Sunday with the Solemn Feast of Christ the King of the…
text “Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?” The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text 33rd Sunday of the Year: Being Prepared It has been another desperately challenging week, especially for healthcare workers who are…
text “Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one; and she must put up with me... The sixteenth century Christian humanist and scholar, Erasmus (died 1536) had…
text 32nd Sunday of the Year 2020: Being Prepared It has been a momentous week, not only because of the ongoing saga of the presidential election in…
text “Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus, Deus Aderit.” Don’t panic. The rest of the essay will be in English! The Latin phrase,…
text All Saints Day 2020: The Friends of God In this midst of what can only be called a calamitous year, and our nation prepares to elect a new…
text “For all the saints who from their labors rest.” — by Fr. Joe Gillespie, O.P. “For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before…
text 30th Sunday of the Year: 25 October 2020 — Neighbors For those who were appalled by the New York Times report this week on the failure of the U.S…
text “Do you love me?” “I suppose I do” Often, when I hear the question, “Do you love me?” I think of a beautiful…
text 29th Sunday of the Year: Life and Taxes [Busy days at hand: students’ mid-terms and papers are clamoring for attention. The following is a…
text “Heads I win, tails you lose.” The games of marbles we played on the parking lot of Incarnation School were…
text 28th Sunday of the Year: Wine Party As the focus of national news programs shifted last week (and the week before) to concerns about…
text “Don’t leave before the miracle happens.” Last week I received a letter from the Archdiocesan Office for Canonical…
text 27th Sunday of the Year: Harvest of Flame In this strange, almost “apocalyptic” year, as the news reporters often call it, one of the most…
text “No Whine Before Its Time.” Instead of taking the staircase, I opted to take the elevator to the third…
text 26th Sunday of the Year: True Obedience September has been another record-shattering period for wildfires in the West and hurricanes in the…
text .“Yes! We have no bananas.” Reportedly, a woman in search of bananas went into a tiny grocery store…
text 25th Sunday of the Year: Beyond Justice This past week, the Chicago area was witness to a nurses’ strike for more just wages and fairer…
text "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" The young mother and her two children were sitting in the booth behind me. I…
