The Good Word

George Swanson Starling spent most of his adult life in Harlem working as a train porter but the Black American had been raised in the racially segregated South picking fruit for pennies an hour in Florida groves Like many of us George had envisioned a very different life than the one he got

The Pope has lashed out at world hunger and commodity markets which drive up the price of food for those in need nbsp This excerpt is taken from The Compass My thoughts turn toward the situation of millions of children who are the first victims of this tragedy condemned to an early death or t

The second reading for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Romans 8 9 11-13 speaks of the Spirit-Flesh antithesis yet nbsp it is difficult not to see the specter of Mind-Body dualism hovering over the passage which always winds up as bad news for the body The passage as found in the lectio

For the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul I wanted to write about a man who puts the fear of God in you while he encourages you I have always loved the Apostle Paul even though he scares me a little when I read his letters since I fear he might step off of the page sit me down on the bench nbs

It is almost too much to comprehend the ways in which the Body and Blood of Christ are present and real to us and nourish us We have a type of this heavenly food in the manna in the desert which Deuteronomy 8 3 says is food nbsp ldquo which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted in ord

I am honored by Professor Joseph Trabbic rsquo s generous response to me Reading with the Spirit A Response to John Martens and I am in agreement with almost all that he writes nbsp I sometimes wonder if a part of the problem under which I labor in discussions on biblical interpretation is that

One sentence one beautiful sentence at the end of Paul rsquo s second letter to the Corinthians 13 13 and it is clear that the notion of God has been transformed in the life and worship of the early Church The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spiri

Here is another homily from Fr Bill O Malley who has an article in this week s America The homily below is for June 19 Holy Trinity Sunday Click here to read Fr O Malley s homily from Pentecost I know you rsquo re all breathless with anticipation for the new liturgical changes that begin next

I had been waiting weeks to write this blog post but it all came crashing down yesterday I wanted to write a blog post on my beloved Vancouver Canucks who have been in the NHL for 40 years and whom I have followed since I was 9 years old when boys follow their heroes with naivet eacute and chil