Reflections

At Masses in England, a Hail Mary is prayed at the end of the Prayers of the Faithful, or “Bidding Prayers,” as they are called over...

What’s the most you would you be willing to do for a friend? Would you offer him a ride to the airport at 4:30 in the morning – without...

I hated playing cards with my mother, and as far as I know, all of my brothers and sisters felt the same way. And it wasn’t just cards, to...

When, as a young priest, I was a graduate student in the UK, I lived and worked in a big Catholic parish in downtown Cambridge. The parish was Our...

When I was a teenager, I attended the public high school in a small town near Boston, Massachusetts. I was fortunate in that I enjoyed my high...

We value some things because they are new, like the latest bestseller, the smell of a new car, the look and feel of a crisp new banknote, the first...

I remember years ago when I was still a seminarian, being invited to Corby Hall at Notre Dame for dinner with the Holy Cross priests and brothers. I...

In our first reading, the Sanhedrin have had the apostles rounded up, whipped, and tossed out into the street. You would think the apostles would...

More than thirty-five years ago, as a newly minted seminarian, I was told to choose my first spiritual director. I chose Fr. Claude - a young Notre...