In 1970 there was a book by Joseph Heller and then a movie entitled, “Catch 22.” The phrase “Catch 22” eventually became an often used expression for a situation that…
Girolamo Savonarola was one of the great preachers of the fifteenth century. He preached in the great Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, which contained a magnificent marble statue…
Pursuing and accumulating power as some form of adrenaline…..leads to self-destruction. Real power is love, love that empowers others, love that sparks initiatives, love that no chain can hold because…
A woman in the hospital was weeping after being told she was terminally ill with cancer. When a friend sought to console her she replied, “I’m not weeping because I’m…
Over the years I have forgotten so much of what my teachers and professors taught me. One of the things that any number of my professors in the seminary stressed…
WHO WILL YOU SEE IN HEAVEN? I was shocked, confused, bewilderedAs I entered Heaven’s door,Not by the beauty of it all,Nor the lights or its décor. But it was the…
In yesterday’s Gospel (Luke 7:11-19) Jesus cures 10 lepers. Only one of them, a Samaritan, returns to thank Jesus for being cured. Why did only one man cleansed from leprosy…
