I always advise people that if they are stopped by a police officer and he asks “Do you know why I stopped you?” Answer  “no.” The reason is that you have no idea why he stopped you. You may think...

Occasionally priests receive this question and this week someone asked it to me. “If you had the choice all over again to be a priest would you still choose to do so?” If you expected me to answer and immediately say “Oh yes,...

We can take this simple little passage as Jesus teaching on divorce, or we can look deeply at what to find what more Jesus is saying here. If we do the latter and we do it well, we will see...

Today’s second reading gives us picture that we may have some familiarity with but I think we need to update it a bit. The picture is discrimination against the poor. Obviously, St. James is questioning a common practice throughout the...