What I learned from my uncle, the monk
Faith in Focus
Just a Little More Faith: When Sam Rockwell Played Judas Iscariot
“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.
Deaths Door: Why must we turn our eyes from suffering?
Why must we turn our eyes from suffering? A reflection on my mother’s death.
A Visitation: Two strangers unexpectedly bring home the pain of war.
Two strangers bring home the pain of war.
15 Minutes to Let God Lead: Walking with Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
The lessons of Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
A Dinosaur Ponders The Latin Mass
We are fast becoming extinct, we dinosaur Catholics who passed through childhood, adolescence and into adult years with the Latin Mass. Now men and women in the generations after us are talking a lot about the Latin Mass. Perhaps my personal recollections of the journey from Latin to English, surely
Preserving Catholic Identity: Responses to Wilson Miscamble
Responses to Fr. Wilson Miscamble
A Righteous Gentile: Marcel Dubois (1920-2007)
Philosopher, theologian, teacher, spiritual director, custodian of souls, man of God— Marcel Dubois, O.P., was all of these. Of the Christians living in the State of Israel, he was one of those best known to Jews. By the time of his death last June, Father Dubois had taught philosophy to gener
The Messiah Is Coming: Musings at the gate of Rosh Hashanah
The Days of Awe, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, afford Jews an opportunity to reflect on what the enterprise of Jewish life is all about. As with all religious traditions, it must be about more than the symbols or institutions of our respective communities of faith. For Christians,
The Peculiar Grace of Failure: A year of teaching, a lifetime lesson learned
I have always been a reasonably successful person: a long marriage, beautiful children, published clips on demand, no criminal record, no bankruptcies. Ive been a hard worker at every job Ive had. Ive been O.K.until this past year, which I have spent as an English teacher in a public high school. Th
