Lent
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.
March 5, 2023
There is a famous story told of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, a Russian monk from the eighteenth century—a “wonderworker,” he’s called.
February 18, 2024
For Saint Augustine, that great doctor of the Church and light of theology and civilization, his journey to the faith, his conversion to Christianity, his path to baptism was very painful.
March 3, 2024
“[T]he cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.”[1] That’s a line from a little poem by Rilke; it’s something Rodin had said. Rilke, the poet, for a time worked for Rodin, the sculptor, until they had a falling out as artists often do.