These startling words of Jesus in St. John’s Gospel caused many of his disciples to say, “This saying is hard, who can accept it?

 This year Advent began on Nov. 27.  What is Advent all about?

It was October of 1963, my fourth year in Rome, the only student that year from the newly created Diocese of Baton Rouge, at the North American College. 

In the Lord’s Prayer, we ask God the Father to “lead us not into temptation.”  Does that mean that God will sometimes lead us to temptation?”

The Eucharist is the sacred meal that Jesus wished to share with his disciples the night before he died. 

Why should I go to confession if I have not committed a mortal sin?

There comes a time in life when it’s time to stop writing your resume and begin to write your obituary. I’m not sure who first coined that line, but there’s wisdom in it.

Retreats are great opportunities to consider what God is trying to tell each of us individually, personally and possibly also as a community.

What does the church say about cremation?

Recently I received a letter from a friend who shared that she was afraid to accept a certain vocation because it would leave her too much alone.

“The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age …” are also those of the church.  Known also by its first two nouns in Latin—Gaudium et Spes, this fourth and final constitution, or main document, of the council is the only major document to originate from the floor of the council.

On Sept. 23 we celebrated the memorial of Padre Pio.  I understand he had the stigmata?  What is that?

What’s in an image? An image can imprint itself indelibly into our consciousness so that we cannot not picture a thing except in a certain way.

Bishop Robert E. Tracy wrote in his book, “American Bishop at Vatican II,”  that when fathers of the council received the original schema on the church, which had been prepared by the Vatican Theological Commission under Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, they found it to be “another carbon copy of a theological textbook, calculated to freeze and harden forever the positions at Trent (1565) and Vatican I (1870)