In 2026, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (and the World Day of Prayer for Priests) falls on Friday, June 12th.
In 2026, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (and the World Day of Prayer for Priests) falls on Friday, June 12th.
Pope Leo XIV’s letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI
If someone approaches me today and asks, “So how does it feel to be a year older?” I think I will respond, “The real question is: how does it feel to be a year closer to the life to come?”
In March of 1944, a B-24 bomber was shot down over Hansa Bay, New Guinea. My uncle, John W Emmer, Jr, was on board as aerial photographer.
a younger version of myself confronts pre-synodal synodality in a suburban parish
“Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity.”
On Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026, Susan Lea Whittaker, age 75, suddenly collapsed and then died in the arms of a homeless man in Southern California. She had been homeless for ten years herself
Today is the birthday of Uncle Palmer, my mom’s only brother. I recently came across the eulogy his oldest son delivered at his funeral in December of 2010.
In this paper, I examine recurring concepts about friendship that appear in the writings of Western thinkers, in order to ask the question: What, essentially, is friendship?
On April 17, 2014, the ashes of my mom and dad were laid to rest in a common grave just across the street from the home on Christmas Lake where they raised all ten of us.
