The Funny Friar

Observing the liturgical calendar ( also called the Christian year ) can make you feel off-beat with the rhythms of American society. This ...

There are many reasons that people celebrate Christmas. Even those who identify themselves as Christians often celebrate the day (never mind...

It was a Tuesday night and I was looking across the faces of several teenagers sitting on beaten up donated couches in our youth room. We ha...

O God of the prophets, you opened the eyes of your servant Dominic to perceive a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord, and moved him, and ...

O Lord Jesus Christ, you became poor for our sake, that we might be made rich through your poverty: Guide and sanctify, we pray, the Anglica...

Repentance is not a topic most of us naturally enjoy talking about. In fact, most of us – me included – would rather talk about almost anyth...