Just as my Mom taught me the value of correction, so too does Mother Church teach us the value and importance of correction – the correction to which each of us, myself included, must submit ourselves, but also the fraternal correction which should be practiced in the Church’s life.Read More

We pray that Mom is reunited with Dad and Frankie and her parents and loved ones, but most of all that she beholds her Vindicator face to face in the halls of heaven.Read More

Indeed, the pastor’s first duty is to enable his people, individually and collectively, to listen to and encounter Jesus Christ so as to experience the power of his love, and the beauty of his goodness and truth, and to be molded by him into disciples, indeed a community of disciples who are “a light brightly...Read More

My prayer is that you will encounter many Nathanael’s in the year ahead – moms and dads and children without guile, who will truly be open to the wisdom, both divine and human, you will offer them in the amazingly beautiful and effective ministry we call Catholic education.Read More

World Youth Day is an extraordinary event. You are encountering Christ, not alone, but alone with millions of young people.Read More

As we offer this gift of love, let us pray that our beloved dead will be found worthy to enter, not a temple made by human hands, but the heavenly temple, where Christ shines as the sun and where everyone and everything is seen in its truest form.Read More

As we prepare for the forthcoming convention, let us invite the Lord of the Harvest to cultivate our hearts as we listen intently to his Word, spend some time in Eucharistic Adoration, avail ourselves of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and seek the strength we will need over these coming days to advance the mission of...Read More

Prayer and discernment are thus crucial in a pastor’s ministry, because, as we heard, in this world, good and evil grow up together, even in the field of the Church.Read More