Thanks for all the responses, both in the public comments and in person, on my post about the possibility of quitting the blog in favor of a...

There's a solitude I sometimes know if I'm out walking around sunset; I've known it for a long time, or at least I can remember ...

Today I'm considering something hard: the possibility of quitting this blog. I doubt I will, but here's what I'm thinking: Over ...

For Christmas I went back to the parish where I was before coming here to Boston. It was a good time; I had a chance to check in with both t...

Once in a while a strong thought arises for me very suddenly at the time of the consecration. Sometimes it will be a certain spiritual insi...

As I was meditating on today's gospel--St. Matthew's account of the Flight into Egypt--an old and encouraging memory came up for me....

Merry Christmas, friends. May the dawn of the new creation draw us in and be the refreshment and renovation of our hearts and minds! I'm...