No doubt as a factor of my age and a life of mobility, I have been in several parishes that found themselves in “transition.” An excellent way of saying a Priest was leaving and a new one had to be...

When my son got his first phone call after finishing boot camp, one of the things he told me was that “he had accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.” There’s nothing wrong in that, except...

Many years ago, when I was a member of St. Andrew’s, Downers Grove, IL, I asked a question of the Deacon. Now, this Deacon was once a Catholic and a man of great humor. We often engaged in a...