The other day I received a request: would I be willing, at some point in the near future, to celebrate a Mass in the Extraordinary Form? Fir...

A pastoral issue came up during table talk among the friars recently: what to do for a penitent who comes to confession and says he hates Po...

I remember once back in Yonkers I was caught off guard in need of a Sunday homily. A missionary priest was coming to make an appeal and was ...

Today I finished Last Testament: In His Own Words . To be honest, I didn't find it as interesting as Seewald's other interview book...

This year the feast of St. Veronica Giuliani, Capuchin Poor Clare abbess and one of the great characters of our Capuchin tradition, is suppr...

Amoris laetitia  is a document on the family, but it also has something to say about the celibate vocation in the Church. For example: Wh...

Sitting a little with the Sunday gospel we have today, Luke's parables of the lost things--the lost sheep, the lost coin, the two lost b...

As I've mentioned, one of the tasks I've been charged with recently is the setting of the tables for the friars' meals. In the r...

I don't think anyone would accuse me of having good manners, but I am good at remembering to write a thank-you note.

The Pope spoke sweetly at his last Wednesday Audience this morning. Of course we all watched and listened attentively. At lunch all the brot...

What a striking thing it is--in this curious moment in the pilgrimage of the Church Militant--to celebrate today the feast of the Chair of P...

Before I came here to Rome, a friar reported to me a comment about my assignment that another friar had made. The latter friar said that per...

Warning: this is something of a non-post. Recently I went on my first errand to procure a papal blessing, and I thought it might result in...

Today's gospel, Mark 2:1-12, When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it became known that he was at home. Many gathered tog...

For the feast of the Holy Family today, we have in the gospel St. Luke's scene of the Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Treating this mome...

I've been reading Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives on the Sundays of Advent and finished it this morning. The first thing I wo...

I wouldn't presume to say that I have much in common with our holy father the Pope, Benedict XVI gloriously reigning. Nevertheless, we a...

"Today we can illuminate our cities so brightly that the stars of the sky are no longer visible.  Is this not an image of the problems...

I love the feast of the Immaculate Conception because I think it's one of the most explicitly and plainly eschatological liturgical obse...

Over the last two days covering parish-priest duty as part of my new found employment, I had the chance to do a lot of random reading. One o...