There is a local cemetery in Lake Orion, right around the corner from the parish where I had been pastor for 31 years. I buried a lot of people in that cemetery, so I know a lot of the neighbors. We bought graves there for our whole family. Whe...

Luke tells a familiar story in chapter 19 about a wealthy tax collector who kept his distance. “Zacchaeus kept trying to see who Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to...

“There are moments in the history of humanity,” Tomáš Halík writes, “as well as in the history of the church and in our own lives, when we are confronted more than at other times with God’s hiddenness, God’s silence.”I have Mass on Sunda...

The lone Samaritan has a dilemma: to which temple should he report? Jesus surely means the Jerusalem Temple, but as a Samaritan he recognizes Mount Gerizim as the true place to worship God, and his priests are, of course, the Samaritan priests ...

I am preaching this homily on our pilgrimage in Poland. We visited Auschwitz/Brirkenau camp this morning; we are celebrating Mass in Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, where Karol Wojtyra (St. John Paul II) came on pilgrimage as a boy.When I v...