Revisiting External Markers of our Faith

I don’t know if you had a chance to see it a few weeks ago, my blog on what I called “markers” of our faith?
Apparently quite a few of you did, to judge from the feedback!
In that posting,… Read More

Too Simple and Pious? I’ll Take That Compliment

I love getting mail, and get a lot of it. The only letters (or e-mails) I do not look at are the anonymous ones, which don’t even get to me, or those that I find rude and obnoxious, which I… Read More

Two Rabbis, an Archbishop and the Oberammergau Passion Play

It has fascinated me since I first heard about it from Sister Mary Bosco, my fourth-grade teacher, in 1960. In 1634, she explained, the sturdy folk of this little Bavarian village promised Jesus that, if spared from the ravaging Black… Read More

Vacations Can Be Occasions of Grace

It was my first chance ever to see a Pope…
I was 22, and it was August 1972. Along with 50 other homesick guys, there I was, brand new as a seminarian at the North American College, jammed into the… Read More

Keeping a Promise Made in Haiti

We recalled a somber anniversary earlier this [month]: six months ago, poor Haiti was demolished by the earthquake.
You may recall that, a week later, in my capacity as chair of the board of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), I traveled… Read More

A Sign from the Lord

Thanks, Lord. Just when I thought I might be overdoing it, you gave me a sign that I was on the right track.
The last six weeks or so, as [may] you know, Catholic New York has been running enlightening… Read More

Putting Sunday Mass First

Just a week after the awful earthquake in Haiti last January, I was able to visit that suffering island. I was especially eager to meet our 300 Catholic Relief Services staff members who continue the 60-year presence of CRS in… Read More

On the Front Lines for Life

I wish I could tell you that Church leaders were brave, countercultural and prophetic,” I can still hear him say, “but that would not be the truth.”
“With very few exceptions,” he went on, “Catholics in the United States did… Read More

Viva il Papa!

Forty-two years ago, at thirteen, I saw something I had never seen before: I saw my dad choke-up when we heard the sad news that Pope John XXIII had died.
Today I realize how dad felt: the world, the Church,… Read More

Develop Confidence in Our Catholic Schools

This is my first day back to work and you " the principals of Catholic grade schools, the presidents and principals of Catholic high schools " are the first group I am addressing as I get back to work.
And… Read More

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