Typical of what’s outside most large cities in America, fifty miles from Pittsburgh 1,700 people live in the...
Ash Wednesday Reading 1 Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart,...
Souls are judged on how much they loved, or didn’t love, God and neighbors. We may visualize that...
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Zep 2:3; 3:12-13 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the...
Many large urban dioceses used to have a reasonably intellectual, progressive priest known as “The Labor Priest”. In...
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Reading 1 Is 60:1-6 Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light...
Many believe that Fundamentalism is, in a word, “weird”. It’s almost impossible for the worldly to keep from...
1 Jn 2:3-11 Beloved: The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep his...
Today, like yesterday, is a Holy Day of Obligation. It’s not often that there are two consecutive Holy...
Scripture tells us that we human programs are either sheep or goats. It’s a brilliant analogy. Both animals...