In Brazil
Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil–If you want to know why I am not at Ars France with the many priests on retreat, it is because I received that notice about ten minutes after I booked my trip to Brazil way back in...
Artigos de September de 2009
Faith Versus Works
In today’s second reading, we see what appears to be a simple teaching from St. James. Faith without works is dead. However, it is this principle that is at the center of the Protestant Reformation. To this day, lack of...
The Value of Suffering
When we look at today’s first reading, we can see it in light of the time then and now. This is from the latter part of what is known as the Babylonian Exile. This is when the Jews were taken...