Love in the time of COVID-19
In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, Love in the Time of Cholera. It tells a colorful story of how life can still be generative, despite an epidemic.
Guest columns
Stay home; we are all in this together
As the fight against the invisible threat of COVID-19 rages around us, here we are: inconvenienced, restricted and, for some of us, alone. And the best thing we can do for ourselves, our loved ones and our neighbors is to stay put.
The coronavirus and sitting quietly in a room alone
Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Our congenital complexity
The renowned spiritual writer Ruth Burrows begins her autobiography with these words: “I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.” Unfortunately, to our loss, too many spiritual biographies don’t begin like this, that is, by recognizing right at the start the …
A prayer at the tomb of St. Paul
I write these words on the airplane taking me home from my first visit as a bishop ad limina apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles).
Living out the faith (as a young man)
Being a Catholic has never been easy. A quick glance at the lives of the saints can confirm that from her very beginnings, the Catholic Church has been countercultural. As an 18-year-old Catholic man, it seems to me that many of my generation are passively apathetic on matters of religion. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here are a few tips for growing closer to Christ as a young man.
The ‘little way’ of St. Therese
Most of us have heard of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French mystic who died at age 24 in 1897 and who is perhaps the most popular saint of the last two centuries.
Saints for a new situation
Everywhere in church circles today you hear a lament: Our churches are emptying. We’ve lost our youth. This generation no longer knows or understands the classical theological language.
God comes to reign
I am sure that every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “Why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?”
Pushing back against evil
During a recent speech in Texas, I mentioned that “drag queen story hours” are being sponsored by local public libraries across the country.