A week ago at Sunday Mass, we started into what many scholars call “the greatest sermon ever given”—the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus opens with some of the most recognizable lines from scripture, the Beatitudes:…
TO BE HOLY
My first experience with the Jewish kosher laws must have been in middle school. My family had taken a trip that our high school had sponsored to the Catskills for a ski weekend. The resort…
WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO
It is hard to believe that the film Les Miserables was released 11 years ago. I never saw the film but had seen the original Broadway production that it was based on I think twice…
NEWS WE COULD USE
A few weeks ago, a story on the front page of an international newspaper seemed out of place. Amidst the, sadly usual headlines, discussing worries over the economy; the horror of the war in Ukraine;…