In this modern, hyper-connected world, we are constantly barraged with information about the world: about products, about peoples’ opinions, about news, about politics, about war and rumors of war. It can be easy to fall into a mode of constant…
Two Sundays ago we celebrated the Feast of Divine Mercy. On that Feast, we remember that the Mercy of God is offered to us and that it can transform our lives and the world. One look at the world around…
Stone. That word is so heavy. It carries such weight. We say of things that they sink like a stone. We order stone countertops because they endure. They withstand weather and use and time. And when my mother passed, we…
There are new AI systems today that can do many things that computer systems have never been able to do before. The temptation to avoid effort and let AI systems do our work for us is not overwhelming yet, but…
Recently I was speaking with a priest and said something that has stayed with me. He said, “Priests are trained to go to the school of the cross.” He said that it is a constant learning experience for priests to…
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.” For some reason that line from Billy Joel’s song “Only the Good Die Young” kept coming to my head. And it kept coming back to me because I can’t…