Spending these few, entirely pleasant days in the Florida sunshine with fellow members of the family of the Knights of Columbus, it may be a little hard for us to identify with Job’s complaint about the drudgery of life, its slavish routines, its paltry rewards, about life’s brevity, the anxiety it generates, its futility.Read More

On this Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, something is definitely happening in the most consequential of all dramas, the drama of which God is the creator, the producer, and chief protagonist – the drama which is God’s plan for the creation and redemption of the world, the drama in which...Read More

Father Rapisarda has been with you now for quite a while and you have found him to be a good priest and a gentle shepherd who leads your parish and serves your pastoral needs with dedication and love.Read More

It is a joy to offer this concluding Mass of the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. Clearly, he was a primary architect of the pro-life movement in the United States, an architect who helped lay its foundations, foundations we continue to build on.Read More

We’ve gathered in a venerable church named for Spanish saints, St. Ildefonso, Bishop of Toledo and St. Tomasso, Bishop of Villa Nueva.Read More

Like the monuments, museum exhibits and historical structures, the wisdom passed down by great leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on. Each year as the calendar reaches the third Monday in January – this year, Monday, Jan. 15 – we are prompted to pause to remember his life and impact.Read More

We find ourselves today in an ancient structure, a surviving portion of the old St. Peter’s most of which was taken down in 1505 to make way for the present Basilica, in my world view, the “new” St. Peter’s!Read More

We’ve gathered in this chapel named for Pope Clement VII, among the most sacred places in this Basilica, positioned as it is so close to the relics of St. Peter.Read More