New Year’s can be a hectic time of the season. There is always a lot of frantic celebrating that is as often as not done out of a sense of…

Certainly, the fact that Christ grew up in a family setting was more than simply an historical accident. Christ could have chosen any number of ways of moving into the…

God has chosen to dwell with his people. He has chosen to be Emmanuel, which means “God with us.” As a sign a virgin has conceived and born a Son…

In the Gospel, the figure of Joseph offers us a powerful Advent prophecy this weekend. Joseph’s wait was different from that of the others. For him, the reality of God…

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…