Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into Heaven, may ourselves dwell in mind amidst heavenly things.

Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its bimillennial history.

Receiving fully from the "two tables" of the Mass: A Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter.

"I hope to go home." I can't think of more beautiful words spoken about death than these spoken by Pope Benedict some ten years before his own.

One of the defining features of our moral and political culture is what we could call "secular fideism."

How can women come to have a proper perception of their own beauty?

"[T]he whole of man, soul and body, is nourished sanely by a multiplicity of observed traditional things." - Hilaire Belloc, A Remaining Christmas

Perhaps we have found ourselves there. With the man lying on the side of the road, beaten down by the Accuser, wounded by our sins, feeling lifeless and alone.

It was fully my intention to have all of the Winona-Rochester seminarians stand at one point during my installation Mass homily.

Last week, I met with the deans of our diocese to discuss a number of issues, the most prominent of which was the ongoing process of merging some of our parishes and reorganizing others into clusters.