I love to look at the stars. On the night leading into my birthday last year, there was a lunar eclipse and a blood moon. I opened a window in my living...
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Perhaps I was influenced by the crisp fall weather, but my initial reading of Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) was like...
The reports started trickling in soon after the novel coronavirus pandemic provoked lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders that frequently meant whole nations...
My child was born at the dawn of a global pandemic. He doesn’t know a world without a pandemic, just as I don’t know what child care is like in “ordinary” time...
Headmaster and Benedictine Father Edwin Leahy knew he was home when he walked through the doors of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New...
The first time I ever heard of John Henry Newman was in the summer of 1964. The Idea of a University was required reading for all incoming Georgetown...
Autumn is St. John Henry Newman’s time of year. Newman was canonized October 12 and his feast day is October 9. But the fall foliage also reminds me of Newman...
Truth is truth, no matter who says it. This is an idea I’ve heard and agreed with, repeated and utilized many times. Yet for some who find this message...
When I arrived in Taiwan 20 years ago to start a Claretian mission, I didn’t know much about Matteo Ricci. Sure, I had heard of this Jesuit missionary in some...
“There is so much going on in the world today, how can I keep my faith when the world feels like such a negative place?” “This 24-hour news cycle is making me...
