The season of Advent, that perennial season of waiting, is a time for hope. From the hope-filled readings of Isaiah that demarcate our liturgies and remind us that when all is said and done, all […]
Finding Joy in Pope John XXIII
Looking for a last minute Christmas gift idea for an informed Catholic? If so, you might consider a fun—yet insightful—book about Saint John XXIII by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS, a skilled illustrator and artist. This […]
The Fourth Sunday of Advent: What Are We Really Waiting For?
The fourth and final candle is lit. The stockings are hung. The trees are up. The planes have landed. In the words of Joni Mitchell: It’s coming on Christmas. They’re cutting down the trees. They’re […]
Was Jesus Tortured?
This year, on the First Wednesday of Advent (Dec 3), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a report on the CIA’s interrogation tactics between late 2001 and early 2009, when President Obama took office and banned “enhanced interrogation […]
Third Sunday of Advent: Joy and the Baptist
“Who are you? Why are you doing these things?” The Gospel for “Gaudete Sunday”[1] seems intentionally set to contrast with the opening of Mark’s Gospel heard last Sunday. The fourth evangelist introduces the Baptist starkly, […]
Seeing myself in Juan Diego
I am an American Catholic of primarily Irish, Swiss and English descent. The part of my background that I identify with the most is my Irish cultural heritage perhaps because I am way over the […]
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Common Misconceptions about the Immaculate Conception
If you were to stop your average Roman Catholic on the street today and ask them to explain the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary today, chances are that you’d get […]
The Second Sunday of Advent: To Breathe in a New Heaven and a New Earth
Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; indeed, she has received from the hand […]
Ferguson and Staten Island: What I Have Done, and What I Failed to Do
I’ve been struggling, like many, in the past weeks and especially in the past 48 hours to think and respond to the failure of grand juries to indict either Officer Darren Wilson for the death […]
The Feast of St. Francis Xavier: Becoming a “Companion” with Strangers in the “Joy of the Gospel”
For two wonderful years, I was a faculty member at Xavier High School in New York City. Although no stranger to Jesuits and Jesuit education, I admit I knew little of the man whose name […]
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