Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

  At the rehearsal for today’s celebration, I promised the confirmands a homily about sports, mentioning my long history as an athlete. Now ...

  When my mother was living in our parish, I always knew what people were saying! Not that anyone would complain about me directly, but ther...

Not long after I came to the parish, a couple of young men started a social group with some help from me and our hardworking housekeeper. ...

  Turn on the evening news, read the paper, or watch TV, and you’ll think this is a very violent world. Crime seems to be everywhere, almost...

  We all have different tastes, so I expect some of you like my homilies and some of you don’t. But one thing’s for sure—you can all be glad...

A Protestant pastor says my homily this morning is probably going to flop. I don’t take it personally. He thinks almost every Easter homily,...

  We’ve all seen romantic comedies—or even romantic tragedies—where a poor bride is left at the altar, standing in the middle of a beautiful...