November 23, 2019
“We receive fuller knowledge from the child.”
November 21, 2019
The thing is that in the middle of our chaos and violence, our injustice and inhumanity, in the middle of the Good Friday we’ve made of this world, Christ is there.
November 17, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. I have always been haunted by the fact that Jesus didn’t really win the argument, that he convinced only very few. What I mean is that all along and throughout his ministry, although at times he attracted countless many, his disciples, when all was said and done, were few.
November 15, 2019
“It will lead to your giving testimony,” Jesus said (Lk 21:13).
November 10, 2019
You wouldn’t think it, necessarily, but early Christian martyrs were often funny. They weren’t pious wimps singing hymns while being led away to torture and death. More often than not they were sardonic, sarcastic, and smart-mouthed.
November 8, 2019
“Easter should make rebels of us all,” wrote David Bentley Hart, an ornery theologian I happen to like. It’s one of my favorite things he’s ever said. And it is, in short, the moral of these readings from the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, that our faith should give us courage, rebellious courage.