This coming Saturday our parish councils will be joining together for a day of prayer and reflection. We’ll be led by Jack Jezreel, a nationally known Catholic speaker and author who is based in Louisville. So as you’re going about …
I write this column on Wednesdays. Some Wednesdays I have more than one thing to write about, and I have to choose. Occasionally I can’t seem to think of anything. This Wednesday would be one of those. But that’s ok. …
To start off this week’s article, I would like to say “Thank you!” for the wonderful shower of cards, notes, and gifts I’ve received this past week to celebrate my ordination. It made for a truly great anniversary. One of the questions I’ve gotten …
Pictured above- Pope Francis prays at a residential school cemetery Pope Francis’ trip to Canada this week began in a cemetery. The cemetery of an Indian residential school. From the 1870’s until the 1970’s the Canadian government maintained a system …
That is the theme for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. It is from Psalm 92. In the US we celebrate Grandparents’ Day in September, but last year Pope Francis started a day for the church around …
I don’t know if you’ve seen the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope (well if you’re reading this I guess you have now) but there’s something I didn’t realize about it at first. There are only about 13 …
The first phase of Pope Francis’ worldwide synod is wrapping up, and the Archdiocese of Louisville has completed our 10-page synthesis of the listening sessions held all over the archdiocese. In total there were 120 in-person sessions held and 2,389 …
Wonder, majesty, awe. Those are words that come to mind when you stand next to a tree that is a millenia-and-a-half old and approximately as tall as the Humana Building. They are all true. None of them come close to the …
English is such a wonderfully complex language, but sometimes it just doesn’t get it. Pentecost is one of those times. The account of the Pentecost event in Acts speaks of the Holy Spirit appearing over the apostles’ heads in tongues of flame. Later …
Pictured above is the Memorial for the victims of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School Back in the early 90’s a youth group I was working with experienced 5 tragic deaths in 9 months. All teenage boys. One, a …