Homily - Tuesday of Holy Week - (John 13:21-33, 36-38) There’s an unforgettable scene in the movie “A Few Good Men.” Jack Nicholson, playing this brash colonel, shouts at Tom Cruise playing an attorney in…
YOU CAN DO IT
Growing up the youngest of three sons, one of the things that many people often noticed about my brothers and I was how different each of us were. My oldest brother Chris was an excellent…
HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU
Two Christmases ago my brother gifted my Mom and I with tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway. Well technically speaking, as he handed the us the tickets, he informed us we were “done” for Christmas,…
ANY FINAL THOUGHTS?
At the end of your life, what will you recall? Kind of a loaded question, isn’t it? It’s kind of an unfair one too. Here it is in the middle of August - most people…
LIKE IT OR NOT, WORDS WE NEED TO…
At first glance at this Gospel, I closed the book. With all the horrific news over the last few weeks it just wasn’t what I wanted to read. Mass-shootings where people at a Summer Festival,…
SNOW IN AUGUST?
So today is a historic day for us here at Newman Catholic. It was 5 years ago that the Archdiocese of Newark officially purchased the house next door from us (pictured above as it looked…
FRIVOLOUS vs SERIOUS
A couple of months ago, this foundation called “the United States Chamber Institute for Legal Reform” published their top 10 list of “most ridiculous lawsuits in the world.” They weren’t kidding... that was a pretty…
COMPLAINTS & PRAYERS
HOW TO GET GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE. You have to give whomever wrote that headline credit. If they get paid by the number of clicks that an article received, that creator had to have had a…
DEALING WITH PRAYER SHAMING
In the last few years, particularly thanks to social media, we’ve had a rise of a disturbing phenomenon called “Prayer Shaming.” That’s when news of some horror or tragedy becomes national news - whether it’s…