A Homily for the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrence Klein

Thomas Pynchon is best-known as the reclusive author of some of our most famous postmodern novels. But is he also a discerning judge of our spiritual health?

It is not selfish to do what you are good at and then to show a degree of humility about other things—including politics and other fields of expertise.

From 1996: “Catholics and other Christians need to take into more explicit account in their sense of existence in a universe of which they form a more and more operational part.”

It is not surprising that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an eminent paleontologist, got himself in trouble with church officials and his Jesuit superiors.

A Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein