Recently, I discovered a clip from the television show, E.R. It showed a man facing the end of life with the burden of a perceived sin causing him great anxiety. He shares his distress with a so called spiritual councilor who cannot respond to his need for absolution, He states at […]

Doesn’t being A Christian mean somehow that we have met the risen Christ, that we live now not just for him, but with Him?
Every Easter season we read the passage of Luke’s Gospel about two disciples on their way to Emmaus, a town outside Jerusalem. This Gospel account is about a journey that often […]

Recently I had been going through a small spiritual trial and was feeling slightly down (maybe due to the constant snow fall) and during my evening prayer I cried out to the Lord asking, where are you? Why do I seem all alone? The Lord then inspired me. He reminded me that I was […]

Anyone who has ever contemplated the image of Mother Teresa in action among the poorest of the poor is left, at some point, wondering: how did she do it? Recent revelations that she lived a profound interior darkness (the Dark Night of the soul) for much of her later life only make the question […]

I get a lot of books to review, and I must confess that very few make it off my “review” shelf to my reference shelf. Light, Happiness and Peace is one of the rare ones, though, that I know I’ll be going back to in the future.
Fr. Pasquini’s goal in writing this book is […]

My talk today for the priests at the gathering of the Cercle Sacerdotal de Montréal.
UPDATE (Nov 17): Photos online!

I was recently invited back to one of my previous parishes to give a talk on “men’s spirituality”. I was a bit surprised when they asked me to speak on this question, because I honestly wasn’t sure I was qualified. I mean, I’m a man, and I’m spiritual, but that doesn’t necessarily mean […]

A comment on the parable of the pharisee and the publican (Lc 18, 9-14)
Part of the reflections I offer have been adapted from a text by Fr. Luis de Moya, a paraplegic priest who lives in Pamplona, Spain. In 1991 he fell asleep at the wheel and was left paralyzed from the neck down. […]

I just got off the phone with Dr. Scott Hahn a few minutes ago. I had called him up to discuss some ideas in his book Reasons to Believe, which I had reviewed a few days ago on this website. We started discussing salvation history (particularly the priestly kingship of Adam), jumped over […]

I have reviewed books by John Allen before on this blog, and I have come away with a deep appreciation for his work. It isn’t just his style, which is very accessible and down to earth: his research and analysis is consistently thorough and balanced, and he does not draw conclusions without thinking things […]