by Fr. Jim Chern
This one time I had gone to visit my mother while she was teaching 2nd grade, and her principal saw me come into the school and said “you’re just the priest I was looking for.”…
“God did not do that.” That was the startling and disappointing statement made by the Governor of the State of New York, Andrew Cuomo almost two weeks ago. He was speaking at his briefing on…
A few weeks ago, we had our first edition of “Quarantined Catholics” the weekly “talk show” that our FOCUS missionaries conceived and launched when the viral pandemic and shut downs first hit our campus. Normally…
From time to time, you’ll hear a theologian or a minister propose that in the Gospel we just heard, the miracle was really that everyone in the crowd shared what they had and found they…
“We must obey God rather than men.” Just hearing those words and speaking them today, my mind goes in dangerous directions. Is this the day Fr. Jim loses it (one can argue did I ever…
Employers often when they are interviewing someone for a job will pose a hypothetical question like “If you were on a desert island and could only bring three books with you which ones would they…
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…