I hear quasi-questions from people sometimes about how I celebrate Mass. The questions usually go something like this, "Gosh, Father, ...

Separated by some 40 years in the lime light, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi and Cardinal Henri De Lubac (a central figure in the Second ...

Homily from the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Andrew Greeley starts his famous book "The Catholic Imagination" with the following: " Catholics live in an enchanted world, ...

Our seniors spent Monday at the IUPUI library learning about other ways to do research besides wikipedia and google; they actually learned h...

Fr. Robert Barron, who I've mentioned on here before, is a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago and a professor at Mundelein Seminary. ...

Purgatory? First Saturday Devotion? Our Lady of Fatima? A lot of times I get questions about Catholic teachings, and that's awesome; ...

A student at Ritter came up the other day and asked for help on a research paper. She said she was going to be doing a big project on the ...

That our society has a love affair with death (to paraphrase Pope John Paul II) is obvious to all, regardless of political or ideological af...

My homily from the Ritter Mass on the memorial of St. Francis exploring religious differences. When I say that religious differences are go...

Anyone who has been driving around the Westside of town has probably noticed the billboards for a new Christian place of worship calling its...

Since the Second Vatican Council, the idea has crept into our vocabulary that the altar is also a "table." There are a couple of ...

Amazing talk by Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York! Worth the time to watch. Watch live streaming video from olacathedral at livestream...

Sorry for no posts in a while - last week was kind of crazy with a talk at Marian University for their pro life club and also we had our cha...

Yesterday, the Holy Father beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman, a convert from Anglicanism. He is a popular figure in modern Catholicism, a...

I used to be a big football fan of Notre Dame. I remember spending Saturday afternoons watching the Irish on NBC, wishing I could run on th...