Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

Dale Carnegie published the self-help book How to Win Friends and to Influence People almost eighty years ago. And about sixty years ago ...

Father Larry Richards is the priestly equivalent of a drill sergeant or a very, very mean football coach. He hasn’t the slightest idea h...

It’s a long way from Bethlehem to the frozen Canadian north. But that’s where I’d like us to go, with the help of a Canadian novel called ...

Look over there at our beautiful Christmas crib. Ever wondered where we got the custom of setting up a nativity scene in our churches and ...

The week before Christmas is the busiest week of the year for me, and not everything went well. I couldn’t get half my work done, and eve...

My friend Daphne writes a very successful blog about writing . I read it every week, partly to improve my writing and partly to keep ...