We desperately want someone to gather together both the disparate pieces of our personal lives and our planet’s history. One could say that we want someone to harvest history, our own and that of the world. And here’s the truth: the Church recognizes that harvester in the person of Jesus the Christ, the one whom the scriptures call the Alpha and the Omega of time.

This passage from Paul rsquo s first letter to the Thessalonians 5 1-6 falls squarely into the realm of Jewish apocalyptic thought as does much of Jesus rsquo own teaching found in the Gospels with one profound difference the Christians were not Jews awaiting the coming of the Messiah The follo

The problem with parables is presumption Hearing them we assume they rsquo re meant for another For example we take for granted that we are wisely investing the talents that God has given We simply assume that we rsquo re like the Good Wife from Proverbs busy with our worthy labors But th

People often talk about absent men fathers who are not there male role models lacking in boys rsquo lives but what about when the men are everywhere and nowhere to be seen nbsp In the case of the allegations of sexual abuse in the Penn State football program the men were not and are not ther

There are times when teaching moves beyond facts and data and reveals the depth of human longing These are times when students connect the material they are studying to their own lives and the questions they ask are unencumbered by shyness fear of embarrassment worry or concern about lack of know

This is not a post about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church I have written here before about child sexual abuse perpretrated by clergy in the Catholic Church and covered up by others within the Church Some have claimed it s not that bad and blown out of proportion others claim such things do not