Three Tips to be More Joyful
In your family, who’s more joyful, mom or dad? Among your friends, who’s the most…
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Catholicism is Good News!
Is life better as a Catholic or as a non-Catholic? Is life better with Jesus…
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Dealing with Anger & Negative Thoughts
I want to talk about two things today: dealing with anger and dealing with negative…
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Jesus Doesn’t Reject Us. We Reject Him
Is everyone aware that some people feel rejected by the Church? It’s usually over issues…
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Should Our Children Be Going to “We Day”?
Malin Jordan, the editor of our local newspaper “The BC Catholic,” wrote a good article…
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Hope You Vote by Saturday!
I hope everyone votes by this Saturday in the municipal elections for BC! Is it…
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Is Purgatory in the Bible?
Here’s a short, simple, informative article on a popular question posed to Catholics by Bible-believing…
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Justin Bieber’s Mom Produces Pro-life Film
A number of people have recommended this short film to me, including P. Peter Nygren,…
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Visiting My Grandmother’s Cemetery
Today is the anniversary of my maternal grandmother’s death (Betty Navey, or as we called…
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Dancing Seminarians
This great video shows what I believe is some fundraising dinner at the North American…
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Love Must Be Expressed
Last week, I started off with joke, do you mind if I do it again?…
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The Invitation to Heaven (and our refusal?)
I wonder if you’ve heard the joke about the son who didn’t want to go…
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No homily; at a conference!
No homily today as I was at the International Catholic Stewardship Council Conference in Orlando…
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You’re Not the Only One Struggling
Everyone, take a look around, please, and see if you can spot which people in…
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A Contract or a Relationship?
If Pope Francis were to announce that next week, Sunday, September 28, all Catholics around…
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Pride Vs. Humility
I won’t tell you how old I was, but it was in elementary school, when,…
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Forgiveness and Abortion
I was blessed to meet Theresa Bonopartis when she came to my seminary, St. Joseph’s,…
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Do We Want the Truth?
When I was in the seminary in New York, we had a problem with one…
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Resources on Abortion
I was recently talking to someone about abortion and these 5 videos have been a huge…
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“Dallas” Spoof of the Vatican
My brothers and I agree: this video is awesome! It keeps on getting better and…
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Thinking of Lies or of the Truth
Jason Evert, an amazing layman and speaker on chastity, said he surveyed a thousand high…
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Jesus Believed in Organized Religion
How many have heard the phrase, “I don’t believe in organized religion”? All of us.…
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Praying with Faith
Here are a three reasons why our prayers are sometimes not answered the way we…
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Why Go to Confession?
Someone recently asked me why do we have to confess to a priest. I’ve given…
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Who Is Suffering the Most?
The following is from Matthew Kelly’s August newsletter. My own experience supports his thought: many…
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One Month As Pastor
God is good! Today is the one-month anniversary of being appointed pastor of St. Anthony…
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How to Receive Holy Communion
If a child were about to receive first Holy Communion and asked, “What do I…
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Taking Care of Our Needs
How many of us know how many hours of sleep we need? And how many…
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5 Questions Before You Leave the Catholic Church
As a follow-up to my last homily, “The Church is Holy, Her Members Sinful,” here…
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I Gave Up a Happy Life for a Happier One
Once, during a trip with a buddy of mine, I ran into a young woman…
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