by Fr. Jim Chern
Growing up, my Jewish friends and I would invariably get into the annual "Who's got the Better Holiday" competition between Hanukkah and Christmas around this time. They would share extraordinary stories of how, during the…
Forecasts, predictions, prophecies. We can treat all of those words as basically the same things - telling us what will happen. The meteorologist on the weather channel gives us the 7-day forecast of temperatures, the…
While it may have been used before, the phrase "too big to fail" wasn't as familiar to most individuals until 2007-2008. That's when the Banks in the United States and around the world found themselves…
"Near Death Experiences." Those three words can generate tremendous interest from the most devout of believers to the greatest skeptics. This past month, there was some extensive coverage of this phenomenon of Near Death Experiences…
“In America, each generation has tried to have a better life than their parents, with a better living standard, better homes, a better education, and so on. How likely do you think it is that…
So let me tell you about a friend of mine from college – I’ll call her Allie because, well, that’s her name. Truly one of the funniest, most random, unpredictable (in a ha ha; not…
One of the things that is easy to miss in this Gospel reading is that Jesus loves the scribes and Pharisees. So often, with the Gospels, as we become increasingly familiar with them and hopefully…
Not too long ago, I heard a speaker share a memorable quote. He said: “Everyone dies twice - the first time when the heart stops beating and the synapses in the brain shut down. The…
Is this the hardest of all Gospel passages to follow? Most likely, our impulse would be to say no because we think of so many others that seem even more demanding. To forgive those who…
The closest I ever was to being “truant” or intentionally “tardy” for school was with my two older brothers. I was in 7th Grade, My brother Craig was in 10th, and my oldest brother Chris…