humility

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.
August 30, 2019

Against the Arrogance Doomed to Ignorance

It’s the plain teaching of the Gospel, and the whole Christian tradition, that to find truth one must first find humility. That arrogance is doomed to ignorance is the wisdom of Scripture and the saints.
September 1, 2019

Homily: The Courage of Awkwardness (Lk 14:1, 7-14)

We should accept that it is awkward being a Christian.
March 20, 2020

Homily: Our Pride and Blindness, Our Humility and Sight

It may make you feel better to know that even the great Saint Augustine thought this gospel reading a bit long.
May 2, 2020

A Lowly Door, Christ the Lord

“For he is a lowly door, Christ the Lord.” -St. Augustine