I arrived late for Vespers on Friday, April 27. So, I was surprised to learn that Fr. Dan Havron, a priest, spiritual director and popular evangelist died late that afternoon. He was finishing a retreat for the Sisters of Charity at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati when he suffered a...
To understand the amazing story of Franciscan Sister Antona Ebo, you need to know something of the Civil Rights Movement. I’m reading a book that my son recommended some time back: Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. It’s called the “definitive account of the civil rights...
Yes, it’s a rhetorical question. I’m pretty sure Francis would have been too busy living to blog! But it’s also a larger question of how the spirit of Francis fits with the world of blogging.
I’ve learned through hard experience not to get sucked into the maelstrom of most of the...
Here is my third and final reflection regarding Blessed John Duns Scotus and his view of Christ. My first blog focused on his teaching that Christ is the final goal of creation, while my second blog touched on the “primacy of Christ.”
To quote Meister Eckhart, a medieval Dominican theologian who...
It’s so easy to lose track of the days when you’re traveling, especially overseas.
So I hadn’t realized this morning was Sunday when my journalists’ tour group arrived at the Church of the Visitation in En Kerem, Israel, just outside Jerusalem.
It was a gorgeous morning — pure...
On the night of Palm Sunday in the year 1212, a young woman from a wealthy family left her family, her possessions, her social position and nearly everything she had known to serve the lepers and the outcasts, the poorest of the poor, in the marshland below the walled city of Assisi, Italy.
This year the...
