by Fr. Jim Chern
In a matter of days, my beloved college students will be returning to campus for (hopefully) a return to a normal, in-person, Academic Year. After a year where half of them were on campus, half…
In recent years, there’s been a renewed energy in the feminism movement. At its core, the primary goal is advocating for equality between men and women. Historically we can see how wrongs were addressed through the…
A few weeks ago, a friend and I were playing a trivia game online. One of the questions that came up asked “This company since the year 2000 has used the tagline ‘What’s in your…
“We’re human, too” - was the quote that made up an unconventional headline out of the summer Olympics this past week. Particularly since we’re so used to hearing from the medal winners or from an…
Why does God seem to make things so much harder than they need to be? Do you ever wonder that? That’s not meant to sound disrespectful or irreverent. It’s a curiosity that pops up from…
Rarely does the first reading, let alone the first words of the first reading kind of stop me in my tracks as today’s did. The prophet Jeremiah begins with the word “WOE” - (which, in…
The last time I was able to travel to Italy was over 5 years ago (and after over a year of basically not going anywhere, it feels even longer than that) But truth be told,…
Have you ever felt like a failure? Or maybe a better question is “when was the last time you felt like a failure?” since more than likely each of us has gone through that experience…
DAY 162: 1 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 10-11; Song of Solomon 1 WHERE DIVISION COMES FROM A week with Jesus was probably what we needed in our biblical pilgrimage! When we last left the Old…
Along with courses in scripture, sacraments, church history, morality, we had a couple of classes in seminary that tried to help us learn how to act in pastoral situations - encounters whereas a priest we…