Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
Two parish secretaries on day one - one a stranger, one in the pews for twenty years - both fail the same way. The mission statement is why. And the hire you're trying to make is the second half.
The train from Valencia toward Madrid left at four-seventeen in the afternoon.
Caesar takes and keeps. God receives, transforms, and returns. On World Mission Sunday, a homily on the difference between two economies - and what you give.
Two Lamps, Issue 24: Saints Teresa of Ávila & Ignatius of Antioch, Teresa's cell at the monastery of San José in Ávila, an autumn evening in 1577
Daniel reached one hundred percent on a Thursday morning in October.
Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time | Romans 1:16-25 | Psalm 19 | Luke 11:37-41
A $60 billion company says its AI might be conscious. The Vatican disagrees. St. Teresa of Ávila - whose feast we celebrate this week - contributed to the thinking 450 years ago.
Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.
The train from Rome to Valencia took seven hours, with a change in Barcelona.
Two Lamps, Issue 23: Saints John XXIII & Bruno of Cologne, the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, an evening in February 1959
