Cleaning the Unclean

Imagine taking the time to wash and wax a car when the engine is missing or rusted out. Sure, the car would look great on the outside, but it still wouldn’t go anywhere. Or imagine painting over an entire house… Read More

Pondering Christ

I remember once being taught by another priest that I should be able to summarize my homilies in one line. I have always tried to abide by that, but for this commentary I am going to depart from that rule… Read More

A Lack of Faith

The Gospel presents a sad story. Our Lord returns to His native place. He teaches in the synagogue, only to receive a rather chilly reception from His own kinsmen. In fact, they “take offense at Him.”
The passage indicates that… Read More

The Mystery of the Trinity

This could easily be the shortest Gospel Commentary ever: the Trinity is a mystery; end of story.
Of course, we know that there is much more to it than that. Jesus' command to the Apostles is to go out and… Read More

Christ Is the Vine

Anyone familiar with gardening is familiar with the fate of dead leaves on plants: they are pruned away and tossed out. Leaves which fall from trees and plants, cut off from their source of life, wither and die upon the… Read More

Jesus’ Father’s House

Jesus is in Jerusalem for the Passover, a customary time of pilgrimage. The outer courtyard of the Temple is apparently a chaotic scene. Money-changers are converting coins into proper denominations for the Temple tax. Animals are being sold for sacrifice.… Read More

Yes or No?

The Gospel makes it all seem so quick and easy: Jesus walks along the Sea of Galilee; He calls Andrew, Peter, James and John to follow Him; they leave behind their life as fishermen to become “fishers of men.”
As… Read More

The Horror of It All: A Review of Schism, by Peter Vere

Ought Catholics to enjoy horror stories? They do, you know. Or many of them do, at any rate — and they always have. In fact, it might almost be argued that Catholics invented the genre. Certainly some of the world’s… Read More

Lotto Nonsense

State-run lotteries continue and flourish while our Evangelical friends oppose them wherever they attempt to spread, usually without success. No matter how much hard evidence they marshal showing empirical links between lotteries and organized crime, or between lotteries and the… Read More

Triumph of the Pill

The human belly, after all, can only process so much nutrition. After that, it just starts adding fat. But the human soul, under the right conditions, can develop appetites far more powerful than that — appetites for luxury, for indulgence,… Read More

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