by Fr. Jim Chern
Not surprisingly, recently there have been articles, commentaries, opinion pieces popping up speculating that this viral pandemic we’re experiencing is God’s wrath, His anger, His punishment for - and fill in the blank - everything…
“Are you a Christian? When were you born again?” I can’t remember the first time I was asked those questions by non-Catholic Christians that I would encounter. The first one was easy - yeah I’m…
It’s hard to believe that a little over two weeks ago marked the 15th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s death. Up until then, John Paul was pretty much the only Pope I knew…
“I am going fishing” Peter says. He says this after the Resurrection of Jesus.... after the Empty Tomb, after the appearance in the Upper Room twice... To be clear, Peter’s not planning a night out…
Another thing on the list of bizarre things for us Catholics during this whole crazy time we’re living with (on a pretty lengthy list already) is at the sign of peace. After hearing the words…
Between different spiritual direction sessions, meetings, calls, one consistent thing I’ve been hearing a lot is that a lot of people are really struggling with negative and pessimistic thoughts. Which is totally understandable. Today for…
The other day, a former high school English teacher of mine had sent me a picture that had appeared in a bunch of different newspapers around the world. It was from South America in a…
Yesterday a friend was describing what a difficult Easter Sunday this was for her. As a faithful Catholic Christian, she was happy with the joy of Easter coming after what probably all of us could…
Over the last few weeks, as this thing went from social distancing, to pretty much being quarantined or under house arrest, to recognizing that this was going to be a really weird Easter - I…
A story was told some years ago that after a forest fire at a National Park, some park rangers made their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage. As they walked, a ranger…