March 16, 2020

Column: Fear, Hope, and the Coronavirus

It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020

Column: On Holiness after Jean Vanier

Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020

Column: What Your Church Organist Can Teach You

Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020

Column: What is Violence Doing to Our Souls?

What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019

Column: Hope is the Inverse of Cancel Culture

Can we imagine enemies as friends, or an addict who’s finally free? What about your husband, your wife, your own hard heart? Can you imagine these surprisingly new? What about us? Can we imagine ourselves beautifully better, different? Can we conceive it? Is it even sensible to try, to ask these questions of hope?
December 8, 2019

Column: Civil War or Reign of Terror?

Are we headed for civil war?
May 6, 2019

Column: Loving Uncertainty

My uncle took my father’s place when my parents divorced.
May 8, 2019

Preaching and Obedience

Whose Catholicism is it? Whose Catholic Church?
May 11, 2019

But First, Hear…

To hear, to be known, to follow, to receive eternal life. That’s it.
May 12, 2019

Homily: Listen Carefully (Jn 10:27-30)

He talked of a kingdom, Jesus did. In him, it is “at hand,” he said.[1] It’s why we’re called to repent and believe, because it would be a fearful thing otherwise.
May 18, 2019

Love, Like Him…

Loving is easy. Loving like Jesus? Not so much.
May 19, 2019

Homily: The Lesson We Forgot (Jn 13:31-35)

In George Orwell’s novel 1984—in that dark world, that dystopia—there is something called the “Two Minutes Hate.”