We Christians truly are an Advent people, not only at this time of year but always. Long after Christmas we will still be an Advent people, we will still be…

John the Baptist must have been a strange man. Certainly, he was a driven man, and when a person is as strongly driven as that, all that is important is…

I suppose if there is any one insight into the nature of things that is common to everyone it would have to be that the world is imperfect. Just experience…

This feast marks the end of the Church year, the closing of the Liturgical Calendar. Next Sunday we will begin again the Season of Advent and with that the full…

This weekend the liturgy leads us to reflect on the second coming of Christ, the coming of the fullness of God’s kingdom on earth, the end of the world. A…

St John Lateran is an immense cathedral, a magnificent place, really, commissioned by the Emperor Constantine in the Fourth Century. Technically it still is the cathedral for the Diocese of…

We were never intended by our creator to live out our lives in a vacuum, cut off from the benefits of human companionship and the encouragement, the support, the help…

It is difficult for us to imagine Christ being deliberately abusive towards anyone, but even so, some of the language he uses on the Pharisees is anything but gentle. Pharisaism…

This gospel passage this weekend is another of those that can leave the reader a little bit puzzled at the end of it! It is another instance of the parable,…

Certainly, the first point being made in this Gospel is simply what it seems to be, gratitude. The lepers asked for Christ’s help, he freely gave it.  But once their own needs were…