Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

I have a good friend who has a number of bright twenty-somethings working in his office. One of them asked him what he had planned for t...

Tonight my words are all for you, Helen and Meghan, as you prepare for baptism. And for you, Andrew and Robin, candidates for full commun...

Pope Francis has told priests that they should be “shepherds living with the smell of the sheep.” That’s no great challenge to a pastor o...

I rarely use my blog to forward links to articles, but this one from the Harvard Business Review strikes me as very important. (Unfort...

I was reading the account of Margaret Thatcher's 2013 funeral by the Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan. Something she wrote ca...

Memories Are Seeds of Hope   Homily Preached at the Funeral Mass for Sister Josephine Carney, SSA Before I begin, I just have two p...