First, dear ones, some words to think about, and not just in February: “In the African American experience, justice is something visceral; it is an ache, a groan, an inner…
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Here’s Fr. Dirk’s homily from Thanksgiving Day: Gratitude is a tricky thing. People always want you to make a list of the things you’re grateful for, and you’re supposed to…
Literalists. Literalism. Literally. Someone who takes the Bible literally – sometimes literalists in this sense are called letterists, which is a nice word but doesn’t really help explain anything –…
Do you suffer from confirmation bias? Yes, friends, confirmation bias has always been a problem and it’s a big problem now. We’re told it’s related to apophenia (yes, the dreaded apophenia)….
Just over a year ago Pope Francis directed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (as every schoolchild knows, a summary of official Church teachings on a number of topics) be…
Fifty-Dollar Bill sounds like the name of a gambling cowboy, doesn’t it? Or perhaps a gamboling cowboy? Here comes our gamboling cowpoke, jumping and skipping down the trail. For years a…
This (June 21) is the feast of St. AloyisiusAlloyississMississippiAlAloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591). Aloysius, the patron saint of youth, is one of three Jesuit “boy saints,” the other two being St. John…
A couple of items for the good of all. Or three. OK, eight. Eight? Eight. Sad to say, parishes in the archdiocese are still being plagued with text and email…
