August 18, 2019
Click here to listen to this homily! Ten years ago I wrote a book on martyrdom, Christian martyrdom, on how Christianity can neither be understood or practiced without also understanding martyrdom, without also, at least in principle, being open to it for oneself.[1] I also suggested that if we wanted to know how to behave as […]
August 17, 2019
It’s embarrassing for the socially comfortable Christian: Jesus’s talk of peaceless division. What does he mean saying children will be divided from their parents, that it’s not peace he brings?
August 11, 2019
Rodrigo’s son is Adrian. Adrian is disabled. Rodrigo works three jobs to pay for his care. Rodrigo brought Adrian from Peru to the United States 15 years ago, so he’d receive the best care possible, so he could live. Because Rodrigo loves Adrian, a father and a son.
August 9, 2019
Jesus warned us we should be ready for the coming of the kingdom, the coming of the son of man. Blessed are the vigilant, Jesus said, ready for his return at any hour.
August 2, 2019
“This man was a fool because he said ‘I’ and ‘my’ so much until he lost the capacity to say ‘we’ and ‘our’.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 27, 2019
Preaching to children belongs to the work of the priest.