Deacon Kurt GodfrydOver lunch, a brother deacon recounted the story of his nephew’s First Holy Communion. He noted that after a period of great anticipation, the day had finally arrived. With family having traveled from near and far, all had made their way to the...
Vincent Ryan RuggieroThe September 27th testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh was exhausting not only for the two of them but also for the millions of citizens who watched it. The challenge now is it to make sense of it. Ford was credible and her story...
Thomas AddisOn July 9, 2018, President Trump announced that he was nominating Brett Kavanaugh to be a justice on the Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Anthony Kennedy. On the same day, the editors of America, the official magazine of the Jesuits in the...
Michael VaccaThere are many saints in the Church and each embodies holiness in a different way. We can say that each highlights a different facet of perfection of the God who is infinitely rich in perfection. St. Dominic is not like St. Francis in many ways...
Donald WittmerI had a friend who passed away this past week and have taken his death hard. I knew him for 65 years. As we aged, we both knew that father time would take its toll on us. For me, it was especially hard given that my friend was a person that had no...
Msgr Joseph PellegrinoEldad and Medad were not in the tent when the Spirit of God came upon the 70 in the Book of Numbers (11:25-29). Eldad and Medad weren’t there, but they still received the Spirit and began to prophesize. “Stop them,” Joshua told Moses, “Why?” asked...
Even the worst situation can produce at least a little good. The early remarks of prominent Democrat politicians following Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh provide insight into their intellectual...
William BorstAfter the comprehensive and well-written essays on this page by Thomas Addis and Vincent Ruggiero, plus an uproar in the secular media, one might question what I might add to this discussion about the evil that has been polluting our Church for...
Probably not and the chances of ever paying it off or even paying it down are slim to none. As of September 20th of this year, we owe $21,499,171,612,329. Yes, that’s $21.5 trillion dollars! At some point during the calendar year 1984, we...
I am at the age that every waiting room I sit in makes me think that this could be God’s Waiting Room. I believe that throughout history most people have believed in a God. And with that necessarily follows certain questions of eschatology…that is...