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.
I wore my Holy Hour stole to Sheen's beatification - the one I wear every Sunday evening at our parish's hour of Adoration. They asked us to wear white. Mine was more gold. But I figured a man who spent 60 years before the Blessed Sacrament would understand.
ICSC Conference, Sheen Beatification, Pope Leo in France, 40 parishioners diving into the Mass, teenagers showing up. Something is happening.
Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels | Revelation 12:7-12ab | Psalm 138 | John 1:47-51
He packed on a Sunday evening, the night before his flight, with the specific care of a man who had been thinking about what to bring for three weeks.
Two Lamps, Issue 21: Saints Padre Pio & John Vianney, the confessional in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Rotondo, in the autumn of 1936 after the last penitent has left
Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time | Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 | Psalm 21 | Luke 8:19-21
The email from Aldric arrived on a Tuesday morning, two weeks after the October gathering, while Joshua was at the kitchen table writing the argument.
The 64th International Catholic Stewardship Council Annual Conference
Two Lamps, Issue 20: Saint Robert Bellarmine and Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Bellarmine's study at the Roman College, an autumn afternoon in 1585
What follows is the document recovered from the Jesuit archive in Naples in September 2026, translated from the Latin by Claire Ashworth and incorporated into the record with the permission of the archive.
