May the Lord His peace! While members of the United States government continue to debate and study what is best to do for an economic stimulus, we are in the holy season of Lent when we are trying to give a better stimulus to our spiritual lives. Through prayer, fasting and almsgiving, we [...]

As we move into Lent, here is a favorite story of mine, taken from Megan McKenna’s Rites of Justice. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1997. Pages 124-125.
Margaret Mary, a Visitation sister in France, was having visions of the Sacred Heart, but she was also being sorely beset by her own community. They were [...]

May the Lord give you His peace! I guess it is no secret that I travel a lot in my work. This week, I am on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. My purpose here is to be part of the Catholic Campus Ministry’s “Busy Person’s Retreat.” The [...]