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A group of young guys we visited on the way to Mother Theresa's Center for Lepers I’m starting to write this listening to the rain pour down on the roof outside. Scratch that, I’m writing this as Niagra Falls apparently has...
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Part of the struggle of bringing Catholic social doctrine to the public sphere (to a great extent, what the Tertio program that I just returned from, was looking at) is the fact that our world is much less...
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I don't know about you, but I often have grandoise, or at least ambitious, plans to do these great things and change myself, the world, or whatever, for the better. For instance, I was a bit disapointed in...
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Recently in our Moral Theology class we have been studying the problem of evil and how we can go about explaining how/why a good God could allow evil to exist in His creation. In my Trinity Seminar we...
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In your second semester at the NAC you get assigned an apostolate, which usually involves some kind of work in the fields of evangelization or charitable work. Options are as varied as working with the Missionaries of Charity...
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Today Pope Francis, in his first visit to a seminary to Rome, came and celebrated Mass here at the NAC! [now Saint] John Paul II would sometimes visit a country's seminarians here in Rome before going on an...
I hate to say it, but I often see myself do the same thing. I look back at Lent and I'm disappointed at the lack of progress, or thinking about the past week, I become frustrated at my slothfulness in studies, lack of generosity to those around me, distractedness in prayer, or whatever. Gosh, I want to be a great saint, but at the end of the day I'm so often like "Sorry, Lord ... again." Think about the apostles, waiting in the upper room, hearing the news of the resurrection, and then Jesus appears in their midst - surely they hung their heads in shame. "Sorry, Lord..." They, Our Lord's closest friends, were wimps. I know the feeling! I know what I should do, and then I don't do it - "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [Matthew 26:40]. Written By Unknown
A couple of weeks ago our formation conference for the week was on Lectio Divina and the priest who was giving the talk at one point spoke about how sometimes even the distractions we find ourselves occupied with...
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This is a write-up I did for the Quincy Herald Whig about a month ago (they surprised me by requesting a reflection on my opportunity to serve for the Pope, so I wrote this up for them). They published...
