This year I did something I almost never do on the day after Thanksgiving. I went shopping and fought the worst store crowds I've ever seen. It was Holiday from Hades, standing in an endless line with frenzied bargain ...

This morning I said farewell to a "mustard seed."|Her name is Mei Li and for the past couple of years, she has brightened the mornings of the regulars at Creighton's Kiewit Fitness Center with her warm greetings at the ...

Years ago, my mother laid down a dictum to her six children concerning Mother's Day. Don't call or send flowers if we hadn't been in touch regularly during the rest of the year. Honoring her on Mother's Day was fine but ...

As I struggled with these readings, I remembered being forced to read the Puritan sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" as a high school sophomore. Then an incident from my son's sophomore year at Creighton Prep ...

Author's Note:|| The scriptures today are so powerful and so utterly appropriate for this day that I almost feel that anything I say might soften the impact of the Gospel or the power of today's readings. Click on the link ...

"We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works. We should not stay away from our assembly as is the custom of some, but encourage one another."||In the small town parish where I grew up, it was risky to ...

Today's readings offer two choices: |Write a righteous attack on prejudice and hypocrisy (probably wasted on the type of people who read these reflections.)|Celebrate "saints" of different backgrounds because as St. Paul ...

When I was young, it was fashionable to question why we even needed church buildings to worship. Couldn't we find God just as well at a lake or park? Today's readings provoke reflection on whether sacred spaces are ...

I love today's reading from Matthew for an odd reason: it sets such high standards for relationships with others that even the saints among us probably realize they will be works in progress to the day they die. Reality ...

Almost every morning as I spend 20 minutes on an aerobic "torture machine" at the Creighton fitness center, I badger God with whatever is on my mind, some of it important, some of it trivial.||+Please let Creighton beat ...