May 25, 2022

Column: The Hellish Loop of Gun Violence

May 22, 2022

Homily: The Thing, The Point, The Grace

May 21, 2022

A Baccalaureate Homily: To Find the Song

I have long been a reader and have learned much from Julia Kristeva, a profound thinker, a philosopher, a literary critic, a poststructuralist, and a feminist in somewhat the French style. It is her work and writing as a psychoanalyst, however, that’s had the most influence on me.
May 8, 2022

Homily: The Voice

“My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”[1] Every parent in here knows exactly what Jesus is talking about.
May 1, 2022

Homily: Mine Not Thine

To the House of Commons, Winston Churchill once said, “Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of the Gallup Poll.”
April 24, 2022

Homily: What Mercy Looks Like

There was a monk, a desert father, named Ammonas. He may have been a bishop. Whatever he was, there’s a story about him I’ve always liked. It’s the story of a monk he once had to deal with, a monk who had a bad reputation; no one liked him, and he probably wasn’t a good monk […]