
Cleaning Out Our Spiritual Closets for Lent
This Lent, allow prayer, fasting and works of compassion to challenge whatever is keeping you from God.
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This Lent, allow prayer, fasting and works of compassion to challenge whatever is keeping you from God.

Prodigal son, forgiving father, resentful brother: there is something here for each of us.

After 35 years of marriage, we look back and see clearly how the wisdom of others has shaped us. We have benefited from many stakeholders who opened their lives to us to witness their love through good, bad, fun, tragic holy times.

To speak of death aloud would have been a betrayal to our mother. Instead, by way of tacit agreement, an unspoken understanding developed among us an agreement that occasionally prompted us to make secretive and worried eye contact in a way that neither Mom nor Dad would detect.

The Archdiocese of Atlanta now owns 50 percent of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. That’s like saying your local parish just found a Picasso in the cellar.


Hagia Sophia is one of the four largest domed buildings in the world and it radiated Catholic celebration for 900 years. Yet most American Catholics were unaware of its existence until Pope Benedict XVI visited it on November 30, 2006.

Why do we have to limit Thanksgiving to once a year? That’s what this food-loving priest wants to know.

Text, post, tweet, pin, repeat. Text, post, tweet, pin, repeat. The unfailing cadence of the millennial generation. The drum of social media and connectivity that beats faster every day, pushing my generation onward as if it were the refrain of our having been told as adolescents to walk to the beat of our own drums.

This humble friar from Assisi has become
a worldwide singing sensation.