• Untitled Document


     

  • Categories

    • Personal Testimony

    Back to School

    Friday, August 29th, 2008

    I just wanted readers of this blog to know that as of next week, I will be working full-time for School of Faith. School of Faith is a program of adult catechesis primarily designed to provide doctrinal and spiritual formation for Catholic school teachers and administrators in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.  Its [...]

    Hall of Faith

    Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

    Last week I asked some of the regular readers of this blog for suggestions as to what I should write about in future posts. One friend suggested a top-ten list of the most influential books in my life. I thought that was an excellent idea, and it plays into my Lettermanian predilection for top-ten lists. [...]

    Vocation Awareness

    Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

    I was completing my fourth year of seminary, only a year away from the diaconate, with ordination to the priesthood to follow shortly thereafter. On the outside, everything seemed fine. I was a “model” seminarian, and by all accounts I was right on track for ordination. On the inside, however, I was in turmoil. Something seemed [...]

    The Miracle of Conversion

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    Back in 1984, I was a young lawyer who years before had abandoned the faith of my youth. I had largely cleaned up my act since my wild undergraduate days, but that was more a matter of expedience, not moral conviction. I felt as though I should give my life to something or Someone, but [...]

    Growing up with Vatican II

    Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

    Pope John Paul II once called the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) the interpretive key to understanding his pontificate. For many of us, particularly my generation, Vatican II also is the key for understanding our own pilgrimage of faith. Pope John XXIII called the 21st ecumenical council only months before I was born, and the Council [...]

    Everybody Still Loves Raymond

    Monday, October 29th, 2007

    This week marks the third anniversary of the series of events that led to the adoption of our youngest son, Raymond. In keeping with today’s Mass reading from Romans 8 (“For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry [...]