Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

A few years back, the Canadian armed forces ran a recruiting campaign with the enthusiastic slogan “There’s no life like it!” Those words ...

Father Paul was on holidays this week, so I found myself eating dinner in front of the TV. That wasn’t all bad, though. It gave me the cha...

Some of you got up this morning in houses without power. It’s what we sometimes call a first-world problem, but even so it’s not much f...

It’s been more than thirty years since I first saw the chain letter about “the perfect pastor,” but it still makes me smile. The perfect p...

About this time last year I went to a conference in Chicago  called the Global Leadership Summit. One of the most impressive speakers was...

Sometimes a homily just writes itself. This Sunday’s first reading begins with a man bringing the first fruits of his harvest to the pr...

If Pope Francis is looking for some exercise, he should take up surfing. Because one thing’s for sure—the Holy Father is riding a wave ...