Pastor’s Pen – May 11, 2014

As you know, the Missouri Bishops have asked us as committed Catholics to make the wish of one of our newest saints (St. John Paul) a reality in the state of Missouri, by abolishing the death penalty. There are several stages to that battle. The first, in light of the...

Where / how do you recognize Jesus?

It was the strangest beginning to a party I had ever experienced. I rang the apartment doorbell and was welcomed by the host. When I walked in, there were about 15 people in the small living room, all staring at a 2 x 3 print on the wall of seemingly unintelligible...

Pastor’s Pen – May 4, 2014

Guests this summer… Fr. John Horn, the rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary contacted me early in April. He asked if I had room in the rectory for two seminarians. They are both Vietnamese, and are studying here at our seminary for their home Diocese in Vietnam. “We’d...