I’m very happy to be with you today here at St. Veronica’s to offer Sunday Mass with you and for you and to celebrate the installation of your pastor, Fr. Godwin. I take this occasion to thank Fr. Godwin and the Josephites for their service to your parish and to the wider community of Cherry...Read More

In today’s Scripture readings, we find two kinds of obstacles to the Church’s mission of evangelization –  those that come from within the Church and those that come from outside the Church.Read More

For now, let us rejoice and be glad. And let us all pray for Will and Lauren that their love will be fruitful and that they will be witnesses to love itself.  God bless you both and keep you always in love!Read More

Yes, Pope Leo XIV made history today.  But now it is your turn. Some of you will be returning to ministry renewed, refreshed, and re-equipped. Others will be taking next steps in your priestly formation. Still others are preparing for priestly ordination. What kind of history will you make?Read More

The news of the election of Pope Leo XIV has brought joy to the whole world. In a special way, it has brought joy to the Church in the United States.Read More

We are “ambassadors for Christ”, as St. Paul teaches. As followers of Christ, members of the Church, & members of Legatus, we represent, not a country, but rather the Kingdom of God in our midst.Read More

May this great pilgrim of joy and peace and hope safely reach his destination, the joy of the Kingdom of God that he proclaimed so insistently and effectively. Even as we pray for Pope Francis, may he pray for us that we may proclaim with similar conviction the joy of the Gospel in every community...Read More

I learned this morning with great sadness of the death of Pope Francis. Just yesterday, he greeted the crowds in Rome, as if to say farewell to the People of God whom he loved so dearly and served so devotedly. May his great soul rest in peace.Read More