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 ...

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

So here I am on vacation, home in the USA. I brought my Italian Liturgy of the Hours to use so I wouldn't forget the little bit of the l...

I woke up this morning and the first thing I noticed was how much daylight there was. Spring is coming, I suppose, but it's also that on...

Paper clips are very versatile. Since they can can be had in different colors, they are eminently useful for liturgical kludges. Here a ru...

I'm famous for not having the Christmas spirit, at least as the world conceives it. But today was an exception. After Mass I was to offe...

Many complaints can be made against religious life, but you can't say you don't get to do a lot of different things. You may recall ...

"In the dioceses of the United States, crosses in the church may be covered from the conclusion of the Mass for the Saturday of the fou...

Good luck finding a real candle around these parts, much less an unbleached beeswax one. (We use the kind--oh horror!--you unscrew and fill ...

When I took the psychological tests as part of my application to the Capuchin Franciscan Order, the doctor, a religious himself, told me tha...