I had the honor of addressing 50 Catholic prison chaplains on retreat at Notre Dame Retreat House in Canandaigua, N.Y., this week. And while my presentation was ...
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All of my regular readers here at NSS know that honesty is the name of the game. I always try to tell you the truth, even when it's not easy or pretty. You've ...
Although I can't respond to every blog response to my "Losing My Religion" and subsequent posts, I do want to include the comment I left over on OSV Daily Take ...
"I want to tell you something. What is it that I expect as a consequence of World Youth Day? I want a mess. We knew that in Rio there would be great disorder, ...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and ...
Oh, no I've said too much. I haven't said enough...
I almost walked out of Mass in the middle last night. Seriously. And I was not in my own parish so don’t ...
When I sat down to blog about Pope Francis' interview with America magazine, I started and deleted the post three times. Finally I decided that I have very ...
Yesterday a friend asked people if we could remember where we were at that horrible moment 12 years ago today. I was putting laundry away in the top drawer of ...
As I watched the events in Rio unfold throughout the World Youth Day celebration, I found myself tearing up over photos of three million people crammed on a ...
The determination of the human spirit is amazing, and watching this video clip is inspiring. But the entire time I watched and listened, all I kept thinking ...
Yesterday, when I posted my Letter to the Editor canceling my subscription to Spirituality & Health magazine over its anti-Catholic agenda, a few folks on ...
My June Life Lines column. It must have struck a chord because I am receiving tons of private emails from total strangers who all have experienced this in one ...
"From a spiritual standpoint what I try and do as a physician is that even if I can’t cure the situation, even if I can’t cure the condition, if even I can’t ...
Pope Francis' homily today was so good, I had to post about it immediately. Every time I read something this pope says, it's proof to me the Spirit is alive and ...
About five years ago, around the time my Complete Idiot's Guide to the Catholic Catechism came out, a national Catholic newspaper ran a story on it -- and me -- ...
Peter never really used to be one of my favorites from Scripture, but the older I get, the more beloved he becomes. He gives me comfort because I identify with ...
I'd like to backtrack for a minute and make sure you all had a chance to read what I think is a critical and spot-on portion of Pope Francis' homily -- directed ...
Earlier this week, we sat around our kitchen table as a family and broke the unleavened bread made by Chiara’s faith formation teacher as a Holy Week exercise ...
This morning I came across a post over at Momastery that really stopped me cold. I mean, I do my little charitable stuff here and there, but I have never done ...
I'll admit it: It was love at first sight. I have got a crazy pope crush - in an agape sort of way. He had me at "Hola." Actually, he had me at "Francis." And ...