Articles & Homilies

Story time: 3 years ago, I studied abroad for a semester in Rome. For most of September 2013, some friends and I traveled around Europe. We did part of the Camino in Spain, and went

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Last week, I had the chance to travel to Wichita, KS with the youth group from Notre Dame in Clarendon Hills for a week of mission work with 350 high school students and chaperones from

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So there I was, just returning from my day off run to Woodgrain in Westmont (so good, btw) and getting ready to eat when someone knocks on the door. It took me a minute to

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Here’s my reflection from Mass this morning: Jesus’ conquering of the world is not an absent or passive conquering, one that means something for someone long ago and far away. Jesus has conquered YOUR world;

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I recently read an article comparing the reality of family life as seen through the lens of two major corporations, Coca-Cola and Durex. Coca-Cola’s ads are routinely pro-life and, without a doubt, pro-family. Durex is

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Listen to more talks here.

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Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?” He said this

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As the pastor of my internship parish noted in his homily for this Palm Sunday, today the Church gives us a liturgy with a bit of a “split personality.” At the beginning of the procession

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And now this from St. Augustine: “If you love me, follow me. ‘I do love you,’ you protest, ‘but how do I follow you?’ If the Lord your God said to you: ‘I am the

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