The Clergy Corner

In the Gospel of Mark (11:12–14, 20–21), Jesus approaches a fig tree in leaf, hoping to find fruit. From a distance, it looked...

The final days of the Easter Season, between the Ascension and Pentecost, have their own special character as a particular period of...

In every generation, there seems to be an urgency—an almost frantic desire—to determine when Jesus will return. We pore over signs, read...

I think that most of us were surprised when the white smoke poured forth from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on only the second day of...

A few weeks ago something happened that I will never forget. Children are closest to God, and a few weeks ago, I witnessed it firsthand....

I remember well standing in the office at St. John the Baptist in Scottdale (where I was assigned at the time) with my staff on the...

There’s a poignant moment in the series The Chosen that stays with you long after the screen fades to black. In one particular scene,...

Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia!  Our Lenten spring of preparation has come to an end and now our Church resounds with the joyous Easter...

As we enter Holy Week I hope that most of us can look back on our Lenten journey with a sense of some spiritual accomplishment.  Our...

With just a week and a half until Holy Week, we are entering the most spiritually significant days of Lent. This is the time to pause and...

This weekend, as we pass the halfway point of our Lenten journey , we celebrate Laetare Sunday , so named because of the first word, in...

Every day, we make choices about the food we eat. Our physical health is shaped by these choices—whether we nourish our bodies with...

Each year on the Second Sunday of Lent we climb the mountain of the Transfiguration with Jesus, Peter, James, and John.  The...

Lent is not just a season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—it is a summons to die. Not a physical death, but a death to self, to sin,...

This week we embark upon our Lenten journey once more.  This holy season is a final period of intensive preparation for all who will be...

In today’s world, it can feel as though faith is something to be kept private—something personal that should not interfere with our daily...

Our gospel reading for these last three Sundays before Lent this year comes from Chapter 6 of Luke’s Gospel, known as the Sermon on the...

I would advocate that a spiritual life of any depth is unattainable without first setting your course down the wonderful challenging road...

This weekend we interrupt our counting of Sundays in Ordinary Time to celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.  On this...

As Catholics, we are called to work not only for our own well-being but for the good of others. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches,...