Of Appeals and Dinner Dances and budgets…

I don’t know a single priest who likes to talk about money from the pulpit. Heck, I don’t even like to write about it. However, there are times when it is necessary to ask for your generous stewardship. And there are other times when I need to say a profound word of...

Pastor’s Pen – April 18, 2010

These are painful times to be Catholic. And though it is easy to vilify the press because of their sensationalistic reporting of the continuing abuse crisis now centered in Europe and the Vatican and the Papacy, I don’t know if the church in the United States would be...

Easter wisdom…

A few years ago, when our 8th grade presented the ‘living’ stations of the cross before our students and faculty, one of our faculty members was visibly moved by the spectacle of ‘Mary’ holding the dead body of her son ‘Jesus’. As she wiped a tear or two from her eye,...