Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

I won't be posting a Sunday homily this week or next. I am just finishing a week of retreat and reflection at Mount Angel Abbey in Ore...

Until very recently, the author Anne Rice was mostly famous for three things. First, she wrote a series of bestselling novels about va...

How long is a good Sunday homily? In the book of Nehemiah, Ezra read the Book of the Law to the people "from morning until midday...

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of car trouble, so people have started telling me car jokes. The best of them was about the minister who went...

A man dropped by the office in an East Vancouver parish to ask for prayers for Jenny Lee. The pastor agreed, and prayers were offered for Je...

There’s an old joke about the man who went to see a lawyer. He knew how expensive lawyers could be, so he asked him straightaway, "Can ...

I preached a short homily at St. Anthony’s 5 o’clock Mass yesterday, and it seemed to go over extremely well. So what did I do? I turned i...