Jesus
November 27, 2019
As a priest, part of my gig is listening to people tell me their sins.
November 3, 2019
Religion is not in decline, though such are the headlines.
September 1, 2019
No better in our politics than primitives, we still invoke the gods.
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.
July 27, 2019
Preaching to children belongs to the work of the priest.
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.
November 15, 2019
“It will lead to your giving testimony,” Jesus said (Lk 21:13).
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 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 23, 2019
“We receive fuller knowledge from the child.”