May 26, 2019

Homily: The Bravery of Love (Jn 14:23-29)

The guardians of Plato’s just city had to be brave.
May 25, 2019

The Spirit’s Gift to Love

To keep his word, to remember what he said, is to love him. It’s also to abide in him and in the Father. It’s the promise he made the night of his betrayal, just before his death. Love, if only we would keep his words.
May 22, 2019

To My Parish on the Feast of St. Rita

Several years ago, a woman came to the office. She wasn’t a Christian, wasn’t practicing any sort of faith at the time, not the faith of her birth. She wasn’t from around here, not even from this country. She was here for her husband, for his education and their better life.
May 22, 2019

Column: A Girl’s Love of Baseball

Maggie Whitfield interviews Melanie Newman of the Salem Red Sox…
May 22, 2019

Essay: The Spiritual Desert Isn’t Optional

The Desert, Not the Monastery We are sheep lost in the desert, but the shepherd is looking for us. That is how Pope Benedict XVI described the Church at the beginning of his pontificate.
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.”