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“What wouldn't we give for That extra bit more, That's all we live for Why should we be fated to do Nothing but brood on food Magical...

John Patrick Shanley’s play, Doubt, is set in St. Nicholas Catholic School, in the Bronx, during the fall of 1964. In the movie version,...

Power fascinates us. The powers of nature both terrify us and intrigue us. Tsunamis, storms, lightning, hurricanes, the devastation of a...

Some years ago, a book was written by Gene Smith, a noted American historian. The title was "When The Cheering Stopped." It was the story...

Today’s Gospel narrative is a little backwards because it all takes place after Jesus had entered Jerusalem to crowds shouting “Hosanna,”...

A man decided to join a monastery where silence was very strictly observed and enforced. When he entered the monastery, the abbot told...

Imagine the disciples talking together late in the year 33 A.D. They are discussing the good old days, reminiscing the way friends often...

His hair is still wet from his baptism in the Jordan river, but today we find Jesus in the desert where he encounters the devil. Mark’s...

If you go to St. Bartholomew’s Church, that grand Romanesque-style edifice on Park Avenue in New York City, and look up into the apse...

Although it’s clear that this ever-mutating virus is still hanging on, we pretty much find ourselves on the “other side” of the most...

“Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ the head and cornerstone.” That was true more than one hundred years ago when a small group...

Say the word and you'll be free Say the word and be like me Say the word I'm thinking of Have you heard the word is love? It's so fine,...

“I remember standing in the crypt of the small church in Bethlehem.  We had been driven there in an Arab bus by Arab guides through the...

“The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me…” These are powerful words, words about which we...

Journalist and novelist Andrew Greely, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times in 2007, named two truths of life: The first was expressed by...

In the Name of our God who is all kindness, Christ who reigns in justice, and the Holy Spirit who recreates our every moment. Amen. I...

This week’s passages are not for the fainthearted. I do wonder about this guy Matthew whose Gospel we read today. On the one hand he has...

Be prepared! Make sure your ducks are lined up! Get your house in order! That seems to be the overt message of the Gospel story we just...

They were all gathered in the parish hall on Halloween night—what the church traditionally refers to as “All Hallows’ Eve”—in all, about...

“So, tell us, Rabbi, which is the greatest commandment?” I wonder what it must have been like for Jesus to be badgered at every turn by...