Ordinary Time is just around the corner. Let’s consider it a mandate to acknowledge and reflect on World Communications Day this year (1).

"Put on your cloak and follow me,” the angel said to Saint Peter. Peter, the rock, was in chains—but freed!

It's not often that a human being is big enough to trump a Sunday observance! But the two men we honor today do just that; Mary and John the Baptist are the only others with the liturgical clout to do the same.

Edward R. Murrow, the legendary journalist, was fearless in the face of bombs, bullies, dictators, and demagogues as he reported the news from 1937 until his death in 1965.

Many churches bear the names of Saints Peter and Paul. One of the most prominent is the spectacular Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

I die the King’s good servant but God’s first.