Eucharist

May 25, 2022

Column: The Hellish Loop of Gun Violence

March 2, 2022

Column: Winnie-the-Pooh and Lent

September 15, 2021

Column: On the Heartbeat Act

Let’s remember, it’s a kind of war.
April 2, 2021

Column: Scars and Peace

That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021

Column: Cold and Creatureliness

Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021

Column: Freedom Revealed in a Myanmar Nun

A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
June 21, 2019

Corpus Christi and the Nearness of Christ

Of course, the faith we share is not merely a collection of concepts. The faith we share is a person—Christ himself. We don’t merely talk about Jesus; we live in him. He is truly in us, and we are truly in him. This is the deep abiding truth of Catholicism, that Christ is not absent but […]
April 9, 2020

Homily: The Food Which is You

To put it very simply, what we do this evening is what faithful people have always done and will until the end of time: since Egypt, since the desert, since Christ, and unto the heavenly Jerusalem. It is why we are here.
February 22, 2021

A New Book! Eucharist, Bread of Life

April 17, 2021

Know Scripture, Know the Mass, Know Christ

Ignorance of Scripture, St. Jerome said, is ignorance of Christ. We’ve heard this often. We know it’s true.
January 16, 2022

Homily: Beginning Heaven Now

Augustine said we shouldn’t be all that impressed.