In my experience as the Church's official witness for nuptial consent, which is admittedly brief, I have observed a disturbing phenomeno...

I've always been a walker. Wherever I live I always fall into set paths: Prospect St. to Ogden St. to Edgehill Rd. in New Haven. The mai...

I spent much of today in a state of under-productivity due to having to wait around for the phone guy, who never came. I have quite a few ir...

Last night was Confirmation. It's always a joyful night, and it's good to see so many of our young people completing their sacrament...

This morning I offered a funeral Mass for a baby. He had two days in this life. The grief and shock, the tragic wrongness of the whole thing...

The other day I finished the Holy Father's doctoral habilitation The Theology of History in St. Bonaventure (in translation), and I ha...

Today was one of those Sundays when I both open the church in the morning and close it in the afternoon. At six this morning I went to the c...