" ... for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour."|To capture the good news of today's readings, we must look at Luke's gospel verses preceding and following today's reading. In the opening verses of chapter 12, ...

I have lived my whole life in Omaha, Nebraska, a place in the middle of the United States with discernible, if not exasperating, climactic seasons.  We have extremes, at times within the span of hours and days, between ...

If I were singing Mass today, I would sing Fr. John Foley's song "Turn to Me." I've been singing it in my head and around the house as I've been trying to write this reflection on Isaiah. "Turn to me, oh turn and be saved ...

|In reflecting on today's readings, I can't seem to get the words of the Psalm out of my mind: "The Lord speaks of peace to his people." Not only are they beautiful, lyrical words, but the message they convey is also one ...

|The road imagery in the first reading resonated with me as I just came off two 20-hour bus rides from Omaha to Washington, D.C. and back. The trip took a group of  nearly 60 Creighton students, faculty and staff to the ...

PRE-PRAYERING |We pray these days as people on a journey. We are one form of God's really being present. We have eaten of the Bread of Life, Jesus, both in the Eucharist and in our acceptance of him as the One Who Has Been ...

PRE-PRAYERING | We pray with consequences of last-weekend's liturgical readings. There was a miraculous feeding of many with apparently little. As we make our individual and communal ways toward this weekend's celebration, ...

"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."||As I handed back my first ever set of news reporting assignments at Creighton years ago, I told a student to see me after class, plainly ...

The first principle Jesus gives is that those who would teach others must practice what they preach. This was brought home to me very forcefully at my diaconal ordination when the archbishop handed me the book of the Gospel ...

A friend of mine talks about his grandmother, an immigrant from Ireland. She never gave compliments saying that her loved ones didn't need to be "getting a big head." Her attitude might sound harsh, but it wasn't from a ...