Reflections

When I was a teenager, I attended the public high school in a small town near Boston, Massachusetts. I was fortunate in that I enjoyed my high...

We value some things because they are new, like the latest bestseller, the smell of a new car, the look and feel of a crisp new banknote, the first...

I remember years ago when I was still a seminarian, being invited to Corby Hall at Notre Dame for dinner with the Holy Cross priests and brothers. I...

In our first reading, the Sanhedrin have had the apostles rounded up, whipped, and tossed out into the street. You would think the apostles would...

More than thirty-five years ago, as a newly minted seminarian, I was told to choose my first spiritual director. I chose Fr. Claude - a young Notre...

“He was only at his best when things were at theirs.” Years ago, when I first read those words, applied I think to some King of England...

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,...

If we were to give a title to our scripture reflection for this Fifth Sunday of Lent, it might be Jimmy Durante’s old catchphrase, “You...

Today our Gospel gives us the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The title that has traditionally been given to the story is misleading. True, the son...