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This week our blog posts will focus on our mission work in México. In order to understand our ministry there today, we first need to look...

Every Tuesday night at 9:00pm, students from Notre Dame, Holy Cross College, and St. Mary's gather together for Mass in the Log Chapel. The "Log...

A parish is never an island unto itself. It is part of a diocese with its mission guided by the priorities set forth by the bishop. When I became...

Every year, the Villa Maria Hall retreat begins with a game called, "What's in the Bag?" Before the retreat, each participant is told: "Bring a...

When I arrived in Peru a little over four years ago I was heartened to hear the familiar strains of Alma Misionera (Missionary Soul), a song I had...

Once, when I was leaving one assignment to go to another, one of my brothers in Holy Cross repeated a quote to me that he had been told: "Three...

At Trinity College, the largest college of the University of Cambridge, all students sign a matriculation book at the beginning of their studies....

There's a lot of talk these days about "brand awareness". What's your brand? How can we develop our brand? Can we project our brand more...

I am pictured here holding one of my five godsons. (Yes, five, and they are all boys. When his mother was pregnant, I joked with the couple that...