Book Drop: Spider-Man & Faith
Voyage Comics, a small Catholic publisher, has just come out with a new collection of essays on Christian Truth in the Spider-Verse. Three of my essays are included. Two I had previously written for...
Catholic Social Teaching for Our World Today
Voyage Comics, a small Catholic publisher, has just come out with a new collection of essays on Christian Truth in the Spider-Verse. Three of my essays are included. Two I had previously written for...
My homily for the Third Sunday of Easter. Readings for the day are: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 Psalm 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 1 John 2:1-5 Luke 24:35-48 During the Easter Season our readings give us...
I didn’t preach this weekend, but in Homiletics class last year I did write a homily for this weekend’s readings. Exodus 17: 3-7 Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8 John 4: 5-42 Do we think of...
Sunday’s Readings: Solemnity of Christ the King 2 Samuel 5: 1-3 Psalm 122: 1-5 Colossians 1: 12-20 Luke 23: 35-43 It is interesting to me, this coincidence of our Church and State calendars in...
Sunday’s Readings: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Malachi 3: 19-20a Psalm 98: 5-6, 7-8, 9 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-12 Luke 21: 5-19 In looking at today’s Gospel reading, as the people are admiring their...
Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times by D L Mayfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars Occasionally people will ask me what to read to learn more about...
Saint Martin of Tours; Friday, November 11th Friday of the 32nd Week of Ordinary Time 2 John 4-9 Psalm 119: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18 Luke 17: 26-37 Jesus in the Gospel today...
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Sunday Readings: 2 Maccabees 7: 1-12, 9-14 Psalm 17: 1, 5-6, 8, 15 2 Thessalonians 2: 16-3: 5 Luke 20: 27-38 Our first reading today, from Maccabees, reminds us...
On May 1st, Catholics celebrate the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. It’s a good opportunity to take a look at the general state of labor and workers’ rights in our country right now....
Apparently today is National Superheroes’ Day. I’m a big fan of superheroes generally, so it only seems appropriate to mark the occasion somehow. A couple years ago I wrote a series of articles: The...