Wednesday, December 16, 2020057In Advent we meditate on the coming of Christ. Traditionally, we contemplate not only his coming at Christmas, but also his second coming at the end of time – his...
Thursday, December 10, 2020068The annual celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be celebrated at the Diocese of Dallas cathedral in a much different way this year due to COVID safety...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020014A century ago, seminarians from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood helped bury Philadelphia's dead in the global Spanish influenza pandemic. This year, the young...
Friday, November 13, 20200352As part of our spiritual exercises, priests are expected to do an annual retreat, which we usually do as a group. But this year I decided to go on a solo, private and...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020010After the Vatican released its extensive report on Theodore E. McCarrick, Pope Francis renewed the Catholic Church's pledge to uproot the scourge of sexual abuse.
Thursday, October 1, 2020098Among the treasures contained in our monastic hours of prayer, none is more precious to me than Compline, also known as Night Prayer. Its Latin name, Completorium,...
Thursday, October 1, 20200171 The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for a "moment of prayer" to unite Catholics across the country at a time when there is "much unrest...
Saturday, September 12, 2020057This is a wonderful opportunity for me to express my gratitude to the Catholic Schools Office for all that they have done in order to put forth and set up this new...
Friday, July 17, 20200513People have different perceptions of other people. In one way or another we all have our stereotypes of people, especially people of other nations who are different from...