It was Christmas Day 1995. I was fresh out of the Jesuit novitiate, doing my graduate studies in education in Goa, India. I was looking forward to a sumptuous community lunch when my provincial, Fr. Gregory Naik, came to ...

Today's Gospel reading tells the very familiar story of the rich man who knew, but virtually ignored Lazarus. We are reminded of Matthew 25:40 "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and ...

Jesus said to his disciples:|"The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected|by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,|and be killed and on the third day be raised."|Then he said to all,|"If anyone wishes to ...

The psalm in today's reading has a line which has always seemed rich to me: "The man who follows not the ways of the wicked... is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves ...

Lent for me this year includes the following: no sweets, no alcohol, no snacking, no saying anything bad about others, and additional spiritual reading. My wife and I also plan to add some type of service to the poor of ...

So the Prince of Peace has apparently changed His script and speaks in today's Gospel of fire, and division. Jesus states quite definitely that He knows what He is about. what He must accomplish is clear to Him. His baptism ...

Today, with the fresh memory of Ash Wednesday in our hearts and minds the scripture readings speak plainly and bluntly of life and death. While the message is consistent through the readings from Deuteronomy, the psalm and ...

A parable is not a picture of reality. It is an illustration using an imagined case to convey a message. But, for the parable to be credible, people must recognize real situations in the imagined one. How credible was this ...

"I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go."  Isaiah It was a stereotypical November day: gray, raw, cold and windy. Everything on Creighton's campus seemed gray, especially ...

The readings today elicit several responses from me. The Book of Revelation intimidates me, mostly because I feel uneasy about the apocalyptic interpretations. Yet, as I read these excerpts for today, I could sense the ...