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Come, Holy Spirit! Today we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost. In the readings today, we hear about the apostles receiving the Holy...

I keep thinking of the moment when Jesus tells the disciples that they don’t need to know the times or the seasons for when God does...

Today’s gospel reading shows Mary’s traveling “in haste” to Judea to see her cousin, Elizabeth. I love that detail. I picture Mary, so...

Without in the least trivializing the splendid readings for this last Sunday of the Easter season, let me share that decades ago, I began...

What would you do for your friends and the people you love? My guess would be that you would do anything for the people you love....

I love this time after Lent, when we get the readings of the apostles, and we hear the ways that the mission of Jesus was being spread...

Over sub sandwiches in a small town in Ohio while on a work trip, I sat with a coworker watching and waiting, eyes fixed on St. Peter’s...

When Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council, his main goal was to bring the Church up to date by opening its doors to the...

Dear Cardinals, Our Global Church shares the sadness in mourning the loss of Pope Francis. This is not just a loss for all of you, but...

Dear Cardinals,     How presumptuous of me to be writing to you!  Your mourning and level of work in anticipation of the Conclave must be...

There have been many happenings in my personal life over the past eight months that, before they occurred, I would have said were...

In less than a week Cardinals will shutter themselves away in the Sistine Chapel and begin the Conclave. Many have seen the movie or read...

In the April 2025 Magnificat mass companion, the introduction for Divine Mercy Sunday says that Jesus showed his wounded hands and side,...

As I reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis and what it means to me, one word comes to mind to describe him. Pastoral. His perspective on...

Pope Francis blessed the noise, the mess, and complexities of everyday life. When I picture his legacy, I see all of the photos of him...

We are an Easter people. Words proclaimed throughout the Church on Sunday, but that became all the more poignant on this Easter Monday as...

It is the darkness before the first rays of the morning sunrise peeking over the hills. The whole world is still - and yet, my whole...

Scrolling through Pinterest a few years ago, I came across an image that has remained with me ever since. It depicts three children...

It is Holy Thursday, the first day of the Triduum. Today we remember Jesus’s Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, and his betrayal and...

Today’s Mass opens with a familiar scene—Jesus entering Jerusalem, seated on a colt, as his followers “began to praise God aloud with...