(Saint Meinrad Archabbey Church and Seminary - looks very Hogwartsesque, don't you think?) I was on Saint Meinrad's website the ot...

Occasionally I hear parents bragging about the fact that they let their children decide for themselves whether or not they want to come to M...

In the seminary, we had a fake news bulletin that went up on the walls around the School of Theology at St. Meinrad. I was the editor for a...

As a way to crack down on kids missing class whenever they feel like it, I decided to film my classes this year, and in order to make the cl...

Bullying and Gossip are weak words, they sound like they don't do much damage. Is that really true?

There was a very well put together editorial by Debra Saunders in Friday's Indystar. The editorial was titled "So Much For Toleran...

Fridays are a day where I'm trying to find more light-hearted stories. This is definitely one of those! If you are going to get a tatto...

I was sitting in the doctor's office a few days ago, and I picked up Newsweek magazine. This is always a dangerous thing for me, but I ...

Tomorrow, the young people of Cardinal Ritter High School report for duty. It is an exciting time for sure, although the Summer just did no...

Is it right for a priest to celebrate Mass by himself? This question is something that people have been discussing in some circles since th...

I'd like to briefly reflect on the first reading from Mass yesterday. I'm sure I'd heard it before, but it struck such a chord ...

Things are starting to really get scary. One judge can apparently overrule the will of the people in the largest state in the country. Any...

To share some of where and who I come from, I thought I'd post this video on my Grandfather. Thanks to Doug Kuffner from Fox 7 in Evans...

This past weekend I had the honor of marrying my brother (as in performing the ceremony) out in Chantilly VA, which is a suburb of D.C. Cha...

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The Roman Missal is not an intercontinental ballistic missile from Rome (although some treat it as if it were!), it is the red book that a ...

Even though I am a priest there are sins that I do not have the authority to absolve a person of in the confessional. Canon Law has defined...

Last week, after my angel homily, one of the Malachy parishioners came up to me and said, fairly disgusted "Are you ever going to preac...

As mentioned in previous posts, Two weeks ago I was able to preside at a Mass to bury my Grandfather (in other family news, we're still ...