I've been thinking about trying to write this post for a long time. There's a lot of begging in Rome. There are scammers too, but ...

Yesterday there came around in the Office of Readings the instructions for the Passover in Exodus chapter 12. This is how you are to eat i...

According the Roman Martyrology , today is the feast of Macarius the Great. A brother came to see Abba Macarius the Egyptian, and said to ...

Maybe like a lot of people, I find the choices for the next president of the USA disappointing. Even if I had bothered to ask for an absente...

Of course we find ourselves yesterday and today praying for Fr. Jacques, for his eternal rest and in thanksgiving for his vocation and minis...

In these days I have been mourning with the world. So many attacks, so many murders. When I first came to Rome you could walk right into t...

A little post for the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary today, which is also the feast day of my province of the Order. On the 7-languag...

I saw what has been called the Holy Father's exorcism on Sunday and didn't take much note of it at the time, though inquiring minds ...

Probably a mistake, but yesterday I took a look at the newspaper. There was an article about the problem of rape in the military. Another pi...

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...

Yesterday afternoon after my walk I came back to my desk and saw the beginnings of the awful  news coming from Newtown. I looked up the scho...

I woke up this morning thinking about today, the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, the solemnity of Christ the King. In a way that it hadn't...

Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, of holy memory, begged Abba Pambo to come down from the desert to Alexandria.  He went down, and seei...

Now sometimes I don't think the threats to our religious freedom in the United States are as grave as some of us are making them out to ...

(This is a partial re-post from this Sunday three years ago. But I was grateful to read it again, so I thought maybe it was worth it.) St....

Today is the feast of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, one of the great Capuchin saints. He was martyred in 1622, which was the founding year of ...

"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...

The study of theology often produces crises of faith. In a certain sense, this is what it is supposed to do. True knowledge tends to upset a...

I love the scene in the first reading today. Solomon presides over the dedication of the Temple, the Ark is brought into the Holy of Holies,...

I'm always fascinated by the way words and phrases swirl about and reiterate and recombine not only in the mind but also in community. O...