Last week’s canonization of Saint John Henry Newman will have universal influences that I trust will include our own parish.

Reading the cardinal’s The Day Is Now Far Spent, one has the sense of encountering an Old Testament prophet.

Why speak up once more? In my last book, I invited you to silence. However, I can no longer be silent.

In a column a few weeks ago, I called upon the USCCB to drive a stake through the undead heart of the dreadful New American Bible — and the lectionary based upon it.

"I am so for this!" exclaimed a Facebook friend, linking to a headline about the Los Angeles City Council's vote to replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples' Day."

How was the interfaith meeting? 

An exorcist cleansed a local house of oppressive spirits, some time ago.

Be humble towards God and gentle with your neighbor.

Over forty years ago, I told a wise Protestant theologian that I had been reading the Apologia pro Vita Sua of John Henry Newman (1801-1890).

In his spiritual autobiography, "Apologia pro Vita Sua", Saint John Henry Newman informs us: “When I was fifteen (in the autumn of 1816), a great change of thought took place in me.