About 12 years ago, while serving as a chaplain in Illinois for a few weeks for a group of a couple of hundred recent college graduates, I had what I’ll call a delayed reaction of…
(soon to be) ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
For those of us who work in Campus Ministry, within the next few weeks, there's a unique and special celebration that's occurring. Pope Francis will canonize John Henry Newman on October 13th - declaring him…
GOD AMAZES US – ST. PADRE PIO
One of the beautiful things about Catholicism is the reality that as a faith, much of what we believe has been rationally, logically, reasonably explored. We have intellectual heavy weights from the earliest days of…
CONFESSIONS OF A ‘90210’ FAN
Every couple of weeks, all the campus ministers from the colleges and universities we serve in the Archdiocese of Newark come together for prayer, a short business meeting and some casual hang-out time. All of…
YOU ARE WORTHY
We’re so conditioned to seeing and reading things on the internet that are trending, that go viral that are in fact vile that it’s refreshing when the opposite occurs- where people share stories that are…
FINDING VS FOLLOWING JESUS
A couple of summers ago, one of the great crazes among students at Montclair State University involved “Justin Bieber sightings.” The rumors started that he had bought a house in town. He was spotted over…
WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU ARE NOT &…
A few months ago, a husband and wife’s marital debate went viral, becoming an international news story: A man by the name of Chris Marti who is a real estate agent in Texas, needed some…