Provincial

As a newly ordained priest in the late 1980s, my first assignment was to live and work in Nairobi, Kenya. A great thing about preaching there was...

The two travelers on the road to Emmaus knew all about the fate that Jesus had suffered in Jerusalem. They had heard about His arrest, His...

When, at Mass on Palm Sunday, the Passion of our Lord is read in parts, the congregation often takes the role of the crowd, and calls out,...

Our Lord loves each of us with an extravagant, unbounded, profligate love. Each of us tries to love Christ in return, to the full extent of our...

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. The woman at the well thought she was hard-hearted. She was levelheaded and unsentimental....

Too often, faith is understood as a set of propositions we are required to give our assent to -- a list of assertions we must accept as true....

Why did they do it? Why did our first parents let the serpent talk them into eating the forbidden fruit? When the old devil reminisces about his...

In our first reading, God has a message for the chosen people. The Lord says to Moses, “Tell the people to be holy.” Nothing...

“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown...