Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

Gossip can be good for you—at least that's what a new book says. I'm not so sure. The author makes a clever case for the benefits...

I was praying in the front pew a while back, when out of the corner of my eye I saw that something was wrong with the statue of the Sacred H...

This morning's paper says that grizzly bears are expected to appear on the North Shore before too long. This could be God's way of...

No homily this week! I offered Mass this morning in a small chapel in Ottawa, using the new translation of the Roman Missal for the first ...

Every priest has at least three books he treasures: his bible, his breviary, and his book of somebody else's Sunday homilies. And of cou...

The parish welcomed the archdiocese's only deacon at Mass this morning. Rev. Mr. Pablo Santa Maria is in his final year of studies for ...

I was wasting time looking at religious "light bulb jokes" on the internet when I should have been working on my homily. You know ...