I recently sold my home and moved, so I know the heartache and hardship of seeing your whole life packed into boxes or tossed into the trash outright.
What would you include on a list of holy places: Jerusalem? Rome? The local cathedral?
Most European Americans approach All Souls' Day in a spirit of sober reverence. This is a day to remember our dead, and so it has the feel of a collective funeral about it.
It's an oxymoron to imagine the humble soul on top of the world. Humility seeks to be hidden and takes the low road.
We call scripture the “word of God.” That’s a grand claim. If God said it, or wrote it, such an idea carries a great deal more currency than if you or I take the credit for it.
Happy thanksgiving! OK, so it’s not that special occasion, not just yet. But in the context of our Eucharist (which as we all know means "thanksgiving") every day we find a reason for gratitude.
Do you love enough? What standard might you use to determine the adequacy of your love? We might agree that love is more than a feeling. It’s more than romance.
People in the United States are among the most generous on Earth. We're also among the guiltiest: That is, we feel guilty about our many advantages.
Pedagogy is an ugly word to use at the start of a homily. Better to talk about the way we learn and how it shapes what we learn. It's Catechetical Sunday, not exactly a church feast but a significant feature on the landscape of religious understanding.
Teachers should know more than their students. I think most of us hope that the people who are training us in any capacity have more expertise than those whom they are mentoring