Were you ever part of a team at the parish, school, hospital or any ministry site or function that made a big new bold pastoral plan? You spend weeks, months making this plan. Then comes the grand roll-out for the plan. The plan makes a good run for a few months or...
As a child and teenager, I gradually drifted away from the sacrament of confession. I thought: One can alone get rid of ones sins and faults with the love of God. Why do I need to go to a priest? Why do I need confession? Why must I confess my sins to another person?...
Brother Nick Renner, C.PP.S., has received the Spirit of Sr. Dorothy Stang Award from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for a lifetime of ministry in serving the poor and protecting the Earth—ministry that he continues to carry out every day. The award was presented...
My mother died five days before Christmas last year. This past Independence Day, I went to my brother’s home to pick up the remnants of my parents’ estate. I unpacked Dad’s footlocker from his Air Force days, which contained Mom’s afghans, his anniversary watch from...
A message for the Solemnity of St. Gaspar del Bufalo from our Provincial Director Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. A fellow Missionary of the Precious Blood reminded me last week that “We live in interesting times.” His statement is a version of the apocryphal Chinese...
