St. John XXIII Parish is 15 years old this summer. I have been pastor throughout that time. There was the initial planting of a new

As the COVID-19 pandemic made its way around the globe in 2020, people of all races, ages and walks of life watched and waited. A

We are waiting. Waiting for what? We don’t really know. We used to wait in line, on hold, in traffic. We waited with anticipation for

Among the most difficult challenges in navigating the pandemic have been uncertainty and change over which we seem to have little control. From a novel

When our current social isolation started and the public celebration of Mass was canceled, staff at Anna Ferguson’s parish in Papillion, Nebraska, got busy with

Three weeks after her husband died, I called the widow to see how she was doing. Sadly, the man had died shortly after the state

Some days, the losses we have sustained from the COVID-19 pandemic seem almost too great to comprehend. So many families and friends are mourning the

“Peace be with you,” Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19). Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a

Today’s responsorial psalm uses brief excerpts from the lengthy Psalm 104, a paean to God’s work as Creator. In keeping with the theme of Pentecost,

Do I remember St. John Paul II? Yes, I remember him well. I write of him as the centennial of his birth May 18, 1920,

One of my assignments as a theology graduate assistant was to deliver a 90-minute lecture on St. John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The

College students have been forced to leave campuses and isolate for at least the past month amid a global pandemic — adding to the fears