W hen I was a kid and somebody did something wrong enough to be reported on in the newspaper, it was not unusual for the reporter to mentio...

F rom the most faithful, faithful Catholic, to the vaguely nominal Catholic to the anti-Catholic it seems most people want to weigh in on t...

D espite his rockstar status, in many circles, there are those who are very wary of Pope Francis and they let me know it.  It is a complete...

I killed a great and successful program. I feel extremely guilty about it. I could offer ALL KINDS of excuses but when it comes ri...

W hen I was first ordained, my first trip was to Slovenia in order to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving with my family in my grandparent...

T HE EXCUSE So, here’s the reason (yet another excuse) that there was no post yesterday.  We had a Presbyteral Convocation, aka a murde...

I had an occasion to go to an Apple store recently.  For the first time I went unaccompanied by an adult in the computer world.  I was int...

E very now and then I pray that news agencies will hire somebody who knows the Catholic faith well before attempting to write a report on i...

D oes your parish remind you more of a gym or a hardware store?   I’m not talking about the architecture.   That’s another pos...

Here’s a new 7 week series for Friday Potpourri:   The precepts of the Church.   Fr. Kovacina had an excellent series at Fai...

I can’t think of a thing to write about today.   That is to say, I can’t think of ONE thing to write about.   There is just so mu...

L ast night I watched the world premier of Sharknado Two; the Second One, unfortunately one of the best films of the summer.   The movie l...

T here are two ways in which a person can own a horse.   The first (the model imagined by seven year olds everywhere) is where you pay t...