
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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The Church is Holy, Her Members Sinful
All of us have someone in our family who has fallen away from the Church.…
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Give God Permission
Have we ever asked ourselves why we don’t get more out of Mass? It’s sad…
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Let Nothing Be Preferred to Prayer
I love Blessed Mother Teresa! Her life, teachings and example inspired and guided me early…
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Some Good Pope Vs. Pope Jokes
“In the end, the universality of football is, perhaps, equaled only by the universality…
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My First Day at St. Anthony of Padua’s
God is good! He’s guided me through a wonderful first day at St. Anthony’s. Fr.…
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Memorial of the 120 Chinese Martyrs
Taken from the Catholic News Agency: “On July 9 the Church celebrates the feast of…
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Farewell Assumption
This past Sunday, July 6, I bade farewell to my parish family of Our Lady…
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My Favourite Religious Painting
When I left Assumption this past Sunday, I gave out my priestly ordination holy…
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