A Pentecost Examination of Conscience 2024 Today, we celebrate one of the great Solemnities in our Catholic Church.   It is the Solemnit...

  May Crowning 2024 “On Catholics Worshipping Statues”   Most non-Catholic houses of worship do not contain any statues of saints nor im...

  “The Father Prunes Those Who Bear Fruit So They can Bear MORE Fruit” Homily for the 5 th Sunday of Easter, 2024   The first Fall Sa...

 Below is a video series that All Saints Catholic Church, one of my 4 parishes, called "Rise Up".  It also is a summary of my homi...

  First Communion 2024   Dear young people, I have some bad news for you, but then I want to explain how it is good news.   Your fir...

  “Cowardice” a Homily for the Memorial of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr   I was blessed to give a witness talk and have the Mass ye...

  Divine Mercy 2024 “Christ’s Glorified Body Still Has His Wounds???”   Leading up to Divine Mercy Sunday in 2020, I was in my room at t...

  “Stop Holding on to Me” Tuesday in the Octave of Easter 2024   Jesus makes a strange demand of Mary Magdalene in today’s Gospel “stop ...

  Easter 2024   Christmas is a time that most of us can, as human persons, identify with…most notably the joy of the birth of a child.  ...

  Good Friday 2024 There are 5 precepts in the Catholic Church.   What is a precept?   The Catechism says that: “The obligatory characte...

  “Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear!”   Most of the people in our Gospel today act out of fear.   Every Apostle flees when soldiers come ...

When I was still on Twitter, when the logo for the year of mercy was released in 2015, I commented that it was hideous.   I stand by that as...

 The Angelus A recent survey found that 90% of Americans believe in angels, which is a greater percentage than believe in God, which does no...

  2 Things for Ash Wednesday 1) Give up something that you never want to go back to.  10 years ago, I gave up TV for Lent and on Easter I st...

2024 Legacy Gala from Cantaloupe on Vimeo .

There are a lot of great Catholic novels out there.  Here are my top recommendations: "Lord of the Rings" and the "Hobbit...

Currently in Canon Law, Canon 1370 says this: "3. Both a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who att...

  “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts!”  On the value of a holy hour The first time I ever saw Eucharistic Adoration wh...

 

  Homily for the Epiphany, 2023 “And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way....