Lambs: the enduring image of springtime.  Everyone loves to see them out in the fields gamboling in the sunshine.  At our "Good Shepherd" Mass this past Sunday, I was moved…

Have you ever noticed that before something gets renovated or rebuilt, or, for that matter, built from the ground up, that there is a lot of deconstruction, mud and chaos…

Love or loathe them, we all have them: birthdays. March 3rd was a landmark birthday for my brother-in-law, Richard, and he was not at all happy about entering a new…

Your perspective on the meaning of life is reshaped dramatically when you join with others in offering the basic necessities of life to those struggling to survive, living on the…

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen “Never…

Several months ago I was invited to accompany Bon Secours Sister Fran Gorsuch to Peru to join with the Peruvian Sisters there in implementing a water filter program called Water…

Sister Bernadette Claps (Bernie), CBS reached a tremendous milestone in her life on November Ninth of 2013, when she professed her perpetual vow’s-her commitment to serve God as a religious…

My Uncle Leo lived a really mixed life, full of -isms (sexism, racism, alcoholism, addicted to cocaine) but also full of grace, with a strong devotion to Mary and love…