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.
The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) | Respect Life Sunday
He had been to Rome twice before - once for a conference in 2017, once for research in 2019 - and had experienced it both times as a city that was interesting in proportion to what you brought to it.
Two Lamps, Issue 22: Saints Thérèse of Lisieux & Rose of Viterbo, Thérèse's cell at the Carmel of Lisieux, an autumn afternoon in 1893
Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.
I am writing this chapter before we go to Valencia.
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.
Nearly every Domus path opens October with the same Gospel - the parable of the vineyard - and carries it somewhere different: a steward's ledger, a career, an ordination, a family jar on the table.
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
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