Crisis at southern border continues. The crisis at the U. S.-Mexico border continues, as record numbers of migrants attempt to find refuge in the United States. Border… Read more “In The News 4/8/21”

This is the next in a series I will be posting on the candidates for the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Knoxville. My hope is that… Read more “Raphael Pubillones, Deacon Candidate”

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who is also pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (where Martin Luther King Jr served as pastor) took considerable heat over the… Read more “Sen. Warnock’s Easter Tweet: “We Are Able to Save Ourselves””

Phil Zuckerman, sociologist and associate dean at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA, has made something of a cottage industry for himself around the meme that secular, atheistic… Read more “Are Secular Societies Happier?”

13. All are called to belong to the new people of God. Wherefore this people, while remaining one and only one, is to be spread throughout the… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part XIII”

Today I am sharing the reflection given for Saturday morning prayer by Dave Duhamel on our most recent deacon training weekend. Dave is a deacon candidate from… Read more “Hope In Jesus”

Last week, Pope Francis affirmed, once again, that Saint Mary is not the “co-redemptrix,” a title and role some theologians, and at least one purported visionary, have… Read more “Pope Francis: Jesus Gave Mary to Us As Mother, Not Co-Redemptrix”

This is an important story. I encourage you to read the entire article. The New York Times (NYT) is being sued by James O’Keefe’s independent journalism organization,… Read more “NYT Argues No Obligation to Distinguish Facts From Opinions”

A bill that would remove the statute of limitations on child sex abuse crimes has died in the Pennsylvania legislature. Why? Because the bill removing the statute… Read more “PA Child Abuse Bill Dies in Legislature”

Twenty people were injured and two terrorists killed in a suicide bombing at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province in… Read more “Palm Sunday Bombing at Indonesian Cathedral”