We all, each one of us, are walking on our individual journeys through life dealing with our questions either by ourselves or with others. Sometimes it is difficult to deal with our questions. Sometimes our questions are difficult. Sometimes our...
A fifty-year-old man named Bob was given the bad news by his doctor that he had terminal cancer. Soon afterwards Bob wrote a letter to his best friend from high school named Greg, who lived out on the West Coast, and described his feelings, saying...
Capitalism is superior to other economic systems mainly because it provides equality of opportunity. In contrast, socialism strives for an impossible goal—equality of outcome—and in the process suppresses liberty. Yet, like every other human...
One Saturday night a man named Richard received the kind of phone call every parent dreads; he was told, “Your son Paul is in the hospital; you had better come right away.” He raced to the hospital and discovered that his twenty-year-old son had...
On this Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the readings lead us to a discussion of wisdom and light. We begin with the Gospel of Matthew (5:13-16) and the Sermon on the Mount, from which today’s gospel reading is taken. Immediately after proclaiming the...
Nazareth was one of the most insignificant villages in Judah. When Jesus was first assembling His apostles we find the following exchange between two of them as reported in St. John’s gospel: Philip found Nathaniel and told him, “We have found...
Some years ago, on a warm July evening, I remember my three-year-old daughter walking into the family room and exclaiming that there was something I needed to see. After climbing the stairs, we eventually made it to her bedroom window and witnessed...
As most people know, President Obama declared a “red line” warning the Syrian government not to use chemical weapons on its people. After the (colorblind?) Syrians ignored the warning, the President explained that it was not his red line but instead...
