Readings for October 8, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B He was curious. He had already fulfilled all the elementary requirements. He was a decent person who hadn’t killed anybody, had honored his parents, and would never think of…
The Tale of Two Men
Marriage & Family
Readings for October 4, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, The Beatles wrote a song that was the sensation of 1967, “All you need is love.” This the same point made a few years earlier by an ecumenical council of the…
Taking Aggressive Action
Readings forSeptember 27, the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Radio talk show hosts make a living on it. Day after day, they bring before our eyes stupid, unjust and wasteful situations in order to provoke outrage. We love to listen…
Anatomy of Envy
Readings for September 20, the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Recently a prominent CEO told a mixed group of business leaders that, regardless of their religion, they simply had to read the Bible. Why? Because success in business depends not…
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Readings for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Terrorism is nothing new. It’s probably as old as the human race. In fact the cradle of civilization, now Iraq, was the home of the most infamous terrorists of…
Amen
Readings for September 13, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Pentecostal preachers shout it. Monks chant it. Most Christians end every prayer with it. But what does “Amen” really mean? Is it just a pious way to “log off” our dialogue…
Deaf Hear and Mute Speak: The Meaning of Miracles
Readings September 6 the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time There is little doubt, even in the minds of agnostic historians, that Jesus really worked miracles. After all, the disturbance caused by some of his mighty works was in part responsible…
Is Tradition a Four Letter Word?
Readings for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 30 One of the great battle cries of the Protestant Reformation was “sola scriptura!” Many thought that the Catholic Church had cluttered up the simple Christian faith by adding all sorts of practices,…
Faithfulness
Readings for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 23 Belief in God is rather widespread, at least in America. Various surveys show that over 90% of Americans “believe in God.” But belief and faith are not quite the same…
Life is a Feast
Readings for Aug 16, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B From time to time I run across sophisticated people who don’t, of course, believe in God, at least not in the way he’s represented by organized religion. But they…