After the Resurrection Peter and six other disciples go back to Galilee, to where it all began. Peter wants to go fishing. He is a fisherman, after all. One thing he knows is how to fish. Alas, nothing went right until he saw a distant figure on the shore who was, in fact, the Risen… Read More »

Certain times reading the Bible can bring you up short. Take these words of St. Peter to the people of Jerusalem after the crucifixion: “Now I know, brothers and sisters, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did.” In other words, you can commit the most horrible of acts and not even… Read More »

“I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you.” In the early days after Vatican II the liturgy in English did not have many worthy hymns. We compensated by importing popular songs into the Mass. One memorable St. Joseph day we used a Bobby Darin song with the lyrics: “If… Read More »

In the days after Vatican Council II the seminary held a series of workshops to help the priests and religious who were in active ministry learn what the Council was teaching about what it meant to be Catholic. Some of the changes were difficult for people of a given mindset to take and one older… Read More »