This retreat was given at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House near Lake Elmo, Minnesota, January 14-17, 2010.|Fr. Schneider was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisc. and is the second eldest of six boys. He graduated from ...

This retreat was given at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House near Lake Elmo, Minnesota, in August of 2010. |Fr. Kersten has a Ph.D. in International Communication from the University of Wisconsin -Madison. He also holds ...

A Presentation by Dr. Gerard J. Stanley, Sr. M.D. at Creighton University on February 18th, 2010. |"What you'll find by the time we go through this presentation is that it will be obvious that Jesus was in fact dead when ...

Today is the Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, to her family, Edith Stein. Stein was born in 1891 to a German orthodox Jewish family. In her teen years, she left her Jewish roots and professed to be an atheist. ...

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life."|| John During World War II, two roommates at the University of Nebraska split up to room with two other women. ...

Old Testament lessons frequently talk about God's wrath and judgment. I am often confronted by fellow Christians who come from non-denominational sects who seem highly preoccupied by these texts. They argue that God's wrath ...

Ezekiel 12:1-12 " ... 'The prince who is among them shall shoulder his burden and set out in the darkness, going through a hole he has dug out in the wall, and covering his face lest he be seen by anyone.' ... "||Psalm ...

As I'm sitting here writing this, my youngest daughter is in surgery to get her screws and plate removed from a broken ankle that occurred a year and a half ago. It's a very simple procedure, as surgeries go.|Yet I worry.|What ...

Today's first reading takes me in the direction of considering when am I responsible and when does God react. This consideration of responsibility is reinforced by the events that took place nine years ago today. That ...

PRE-PRAYERING | We celebrate this feast which is based partly on logic, on devotion and on communal tradition. Mysteries usually defy logic and devotional/emotional practices usually fade or lose their original identities. ...