October 20, 2014

I was a seminarian in Rome when Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected Pope John XXIII. More than five decades later, I found myself in Rome once more, on April 27, at the canonization ceremony that celebrated Pope John’s holy life, as well as that of Pope John Paul II. I was one of 800 priests

Tales of modern immigration

'The Twilight of the American Enlightenment,' by George M. Marsden

'Inside the Jesuits,' by Robert Blair Kaiser

'All Good Books Are Catholic Books,' by Una M. Cadegan

Autumn is the time of yearwhen God’s invisible handpaints the leavesin broad strokesof color,then plucks them offone by one.

In the covenant code in Exodus in which Moses reveals God rsquo s prohibitions and commandments to the Israelites we quickly learn that God is a God who hears the voices of the powerless who sees the needs of the poor The terms of the covenant directed the Israelites not to ldquo wrong or oppre