(Editor’s note: Saint Joseph’s College Alumnus Michael Collins wrote this remembrance of the premier Puma, Fr. Len Kostka, C.PP.S. Fr. Kostka, who served at the college for 65 years, died in December at the age of 104. As the college looks to find new ways to...
The Gospel today, as always, presents us with a challenge. The challenge begins in the first reading from Wisdom, “For who can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills?” (9:13) We have often heard it said that God’s ways are not our ways. We...
The people of San Sebastian Parish in Purranque, Chile, where an arson fire nearly destroyed the church three years ago, celebrated the Solemnity of the Precious Blood in their church. . After three years, the exterior of the rebuilt church is nearly complete, said...
Many times when I go to wedding receptions, I purposely stay by the bar and wait for the bride, groom, or parents of the bride and groom to approach me. They may see me and then invite me to sit by grandma at one of the head tables. For some reason, the priest always...
In the Protestant church in which I grew up, I was taught that we had a hold on truth. How my church interpreted the Bible was correct, and all other churches were wrong. The pastor said had the final say on the truth that was in the Bible. I was a normal member of...
Here in the Midwest and elsewhere, we’ve lived through some wild weather this year. Fr. Rick Friebel, C.PP.S., recently was reminiscing about living through a flood when he was in ministry at Most Precious Blood Parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., in March 1982. That...
