This Sunday, No Matter How You Hyphenate ‘Catholic’, Jesus Says: Get to Work! The real surprise in the Parable of the Laborers isn't who gets paid; it's why. Read More
This Sunday, There Is No Forgiveness Without Gratitude Jesus says to forgive the way you keep expecting everyone else to forgive you. Read More
This Sunday, Forgiveness is Hard. Correction is Harder. One Thing Is Needed for Both … Jesus gives us extremely practical advice that we practically never follow. But if we did follow it, our conflict and tension would lead to brotherhood instead of leading nowhere. Read More
This Sunday, Satan Says “Reject Suffering!” ... and Jesus gives a startling, paradigm-destroying answer to the major religious question that people have faced for millennia. Read More
This Sunday, the Incredible Authority and Enormous Sacrifice Jesus Gives Popes The early Church knew as well as we do how much authority Peter and his successors were given. But they knew way better than us what sacrifice was demanded of him. Read More
This Sunday, a Wise Woman Begs Jesus for Scraps. Will We? Imagine the pagan woman coming up to Jesus as a janitor butting into the CEO’s conversation outside the boardroom. That should be us at his altar each Sunday. Read More
This Sunday, When Storms Swamp Your Boat and the Church Seems Lost … Jesus Isn’t Far The Gospel about Jesus walking on the water works in two ways: It reveals how Jesus reaches to individual Christians and to the “barque of Peter”, the Church. Read More
This Sunday, the Transfiguration Scares Us; C.S. Lewis Helps An often overlooked C.S. Lewis essay helped me understand the strange and startling story of Jesus glowing on a mountaintop, chatting with prophets. Read More
5 Things St. Ignatius Taught Me About Myself St. Ignatius of Loyola’s greatest achievement, to my mind, is making deep spirituality available to ordinary people like you and me. Read More
This Sunday, Catholics Know Exactly What Treasure Box, Pearl, and Net Jesus Means We Catholics get a literal treasure box, and an actual pearl of great price; we get dragged to the light and given untold real, practical wisdom. Read More
This Sunday, the Sower and the Synod: Jesus on Wheat and Weeds; Devotion and Dissent We see so many weeds in the Church, leading others to sin. But there is al lot of wheat also, and tiny mustard seeds making gigantic gains. Read More
This Sunday, the Divine Sower Changes Everything (Especially You) The Parable of the Sower is a linchpin in the Extraordinary Story of Jesus Christ, showing us the place of Jesus in Christians and creation — and our place too. Read More