Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

When someone says to me “you’ve just got to watch” a certain religious documentary or a movie or a TV show, my heart sinks. I know the recom...

  Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, was a man of contradictions. He was the drafter of the Declaration of Independ...

  Wine, milk, and bread all appear in today’s first reading. Sounds a bit like a shopping list.   Of course, water is there too, and in the ...

  It is New Year’s Day, as you all know, and the World Day of Peace. Liturgically, it is the eighth day from the birth of Jesus and thus the...

  I wrote three homilies for this Mass. The first two didn’t mention the coronavirus or anything else to do with the difficult circumstances...

Some remarkable women filled my thoughts as I looked at the readings for this third Sunday of Advent. The first woman, of course, is in a ...

  Two very famous figures are on my mind this morning. Both have long beards and unusual wardrobes. The first, of course, is St. John the Ba...