Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

The London Olympics opened with a pastoral pageant celebrating Britain in song and dance. The filmmaker Danny Boyle had announced his pl...

A priest friend of mine in Ireland called yesterday to tell me that a priest friend of mine in Edmonton had been named a bishop. Who say...

In preaching at this wedding I have the great advantage of knowing both the bride and the groom—Michelle as an active and valued parishi...

Here's an important PS to the note at the end of my most recent post : There is breaking news on Candeo , the on-line program ...

My homily this week sounds like one of those "good news, bad news" jokes. Except it isn't funny. The bad news, in ...

Yesterday I celebrated the funeral of one young woman and the wedding of another. And now today the Church asks me to preach on death—on ...

I heard a lovely toast when I was in Ireland last week: "May the Lord keep you in His hand, and never close His fist too tigh...