Aug 28, 2020

"Late have I loved you," read on the Feast of St. Augustine, August 28, laments a man who did not finally yield to faith and baptism till his thirties, whose enthusiasm for the created things of this world held him back from their Creator. But now, having breathed the fragrance of God's truth and beauty, he pants for...

Aug 27, 2020

No sooner does Jesus praise Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi and dub him "the Rock" than he rebukes him as the devil or Satan.  Peter had confessed Jesus to be the Messiah.  But his idea of what it meant to be the Christ left no room for suffering, sacrifice or the way of the cross as the cost of...

Aug 22, 2020

This papal primer seeks to dispel popular misconceptions about the Papacy and explain in everyday language what scripture teaches about the role of Simon Peter and how the Catholic Church relates that to the role of the Pope

Aug 19, 2020

When we think about the Pope, we often think of the Vatican.  But the roots of the Papacy are in the Old Testament as well as in the Gospel story of Jesus changing Simon’s name to Peter and giving him the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.

More Catholic than the Pope.” There is nothing more quintessentially Catholic...

Aug 14, 2020

Jesus heals the daughter of the Canaanite woman because her faith was so great. He rebuked the disciples because their faith was too little. Matthew’s gospel here is teaching us something very important about the nature of the faith needed to move mountains.

The apostles thought she was a nuisance and asked Jesus to...