May 3, 2019

Why Jesus Keeps Asking

Jesus asks Peter more than once, “Do you love me?”
April 28, 2019

Homily: The Second Struggle (Jn 21:1-19)

I call it the Second Struggle. After Easter, Peter and the disciples still needed to grow.
April 26, 2019

Wounds & Divine Mercy

Mercy isn’t about forgetting. It’s about redeeming.
April 22, 2019

Column: Notre Dame reminds us we’re more spiritual than we think

It is hard to describe the loss of Notre Dame. When the poet Rainer Maria Rilke lived in Paris, each evening on his way home, he stopped as he crossed the Siene on the Île de la Cité to watch the sun set over Notre Dame. The darkening ancient towers silent against the new, awakening, electric […]
April 22, 2019

Homily: But You Know, You Understand (for the Easter Vigil)

In the Seventh Circle of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, in the circle of violence, is a rockslide, rubble as from an earthquake. It wasn’t always ruinous like this, this part of hell. It’s new, Virgil tells Dante; it wasn’t there the last time he came through. Earlier, Virgil had talked about it, the moment hell shook. […]
April 10, 2019

A New Medium

My name’s Josh…Fr. Josh. And I’m a priest, a preacher. I talk and write a lot. I’ve built a website, this one. My hope is that it’ll help me share, all in one place, cool and helpful things: homilies, reflections, talks, articles I’ve written, and so on. But also, more broadly, I want it to be […]