Anatomy of a Story: A Holy Man Named Marcus
I always like to share where I get different ideas in my stories. Obviously, my story homilies come from the readings, but others stories...
A Holy Man Named Marcus
The following short story deals with adult themes of sin and redemption. The story includes scenes of racism, violent crime and...
On Teaching about Catholic Marriage
Today, we hear from Jesus about the physical and ontological nature of marriage. It is where man and woman leave father and mother and...
The Mother of All Virtues
I often teach you that the idea that good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell is false teaching. Today we see that teaching...
A Spiritual Battle for the Soul of the Church
Today’s First reading and Gospel are about opening the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf. This is something that would be...
Is it a Crisis or a Prophetic Warning
As you know, in our Church this has been an interesting week. You know it is interesting when news channels claim that all what you read...
As for Me and my House . . .
We are in another stage of the crisis in the Church, but anyone will tell you that to solve a crisis we need to find the root of the...
Reflections on Vocation to the Priesthood
Recently several priests and others have been writing critiques and their solutions to seminary admission policies in light of the...
1,2,3,4 What Are We Fighting For? Souls
In today’s Gospel we see a principle happening of which Jesus later teaches. Jesus is leading people to understand that a whole new...
Live Your Baptism
You may remember the former Boston Police Chief, William Bratton, who later worked in New York and In Los Angeles. Coincidentally, when I...
