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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Can a childhood friendship change the world? On Epiphany, when we consider the frontiers of our contacts with the human fa..
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
My apologies, first of all, for not recording a Christmas homily. -- As we contemplate Mary's role in the coming of the Sa..
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Warning: About four and a half minutes into this homily, I have a coughing fit. Joy is not found in arranging the circumst..
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
The egos of some -- kings, for instance -- can expand to the point that they think they can do favors for God. We consider..
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
We may muse about "the end of the world," but our God is calling us to consider how he is pleased to re-create us and preserve i..
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
"Advent" denotes an arrival -- but how often do we protest that God is absent from human existence? We can consider the wa..
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
What do we seek when we are powerless? We hope that someone will exercise personal kindness toward us. This is the v..
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Friday, November 18, 2011
God is demanding. He did not create us idly. He created us for a purpose. Are we willing to find out this purp..
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Friday, November 18, 2011
We must keep sufficient oil with our lamps so that we can keep peering into what seems to us to be obscurity, and thus to welcom..
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Friday, November 4, 2011
In light of the scriptural expression of tension regarding religious leadership, a reflection on the sexual-abuse scandal in the..
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
What is our principle for conducting our lives? We may be stuck in a childhood mode, assuming that "good behavior" or "con..
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The focus is on the word "anxiety" as we find it in Philippians, so we can find our way through the vineyard of life's challenge..
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Scriptures today call us to take seriously the need of all of us to undergo ongoing conversion to the God who emptied himsel..
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
There's a lot going on: Catechetical Sunday, Appeal Sunday for our diocesan services assessment, and so on. Only at the en..
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Monday, September 12, 2011
In case we are tempted to harbor resentment on this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Sirach warns against holding on to an..
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