Category Archives: Spirituality

The gospel says a deaf man had a speech impediment. Who says there’s no comedy in the Bible. A deaf man had a speech impediment. How would deaf-guy know he has one!? I wear hearing aids and have stuttered since … Continue reading →

The quotes, except those by St. Paul, are from C. Vanessa White, Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Ministry at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a member of the faculty at Xavier University’s Summer Institute for Black Catholic Studies. “To … Continue reading →

Some of my favorite authors are agnostics, men and women who face life honestly and courageously without faith in a personal God.  They’re stoics mostly, persons who have made peace with the fact that God may not exist and that … Continue reading →

“Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns; she has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table. She has sent out her maidens; she calls from the heights out over the … Continue reading →

(the references are local to Wauwatosa, WI. You can think of your own in your neighborhood.) I dare you to stroll the aisles of Metcalf or Pick ’N Save on State Street and imagine yourself a third-world person with meager … Continue reading →

“Truth be told…” Pilate asked that question and didn’t receive an answer from the Son of God, so why should I listen to your truth. “To tell you the truth…” Means that most of what you said before were all … Continue reading →

“Oh, I’m only a layperson,” we said about ourselves before Vatican II. That’s the priest’s job, “He’s smart. He has all the answers.” Vatican II came along and invited…no, empowered all of you to recognize your gifts and talents and … Continue reading →

“Take nothing with you,” says Jesus as his apostles exit for their road trips. “Nothing.” When we have so much, how can “nothing” have a religious definition for us? There are more self-storage facilities all over the city holding things … Continue reading →

Archbishop Weakland wrote his biography about his vast, well-traveled life, (he circled the globe ten times as head of the Benedictine Order). A graduate of both Julliard Music in piano and Columbia University in music. Our Milwaukee Archbishop for over … Continue reading →