Bishop Anthony B. Taylor delivered this homily Feb. 22.
Why is Ash Wednesday always one of the most well-attended liturgies of the year? It certainly isn't an upbeat and cheerful gathering, far from it. Only Good Friday is more somber.
Nor is... More
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor delivered this homily Feb. 26.
Temptation is an attraction to sin, but it is also an invitation to holiness. No one becomes holy without first facing and overcoming temptation. This is true for Jesus in today’s Gospel,... More
When the sun comes up, it shines on everyone equally. When it rains, the rain falls everywhere in the area, without distinction. When the wind blows, everyone feels the same breeze, and when a storm hits, everyone is exposed to the danger.
Good people... More
Viva pit Señor! Viva el Señor! The Santo Niño de Cebú is an image of the child Jesus that is the oldest Christian artifact in the Philippines and loved and venerated throughout the country.
I had never heard of it... More
The nuns who taught me in grade school were the Sisters of Divine Providence. They named their order after the Divine Providence because they believed that God would provide them whatever they needed to carry out their mission, but for us they were Sisters... More
There have been two major ongoing initiatives in our local church over the course of the last couple of years: the Synod On Synodality and the National Eucharistic Revival.
Last year we published a report describing the themes that consistently... More
Three weeks ago, on the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, Jesus was first revealed as the savior of all nations. Three men were led by a star to the baby whom God had sent to save not only Jews but foreigners as well. But you know, we continue to be... More
The greatest unresolved tension the framers of our Constitution tried to finesse was how to reconcile the truth that "all men are created equal" proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence with the highly unequal reality on the ground, which... More
On Jan. 1 the secular calendar and the religious calendar meet. The secular world rightly regards Jan. 1 to be a good day to look back over the past year to learn whatever lessons it can teach us and then to turn our attention forward to the year that... More
Life is a journey with various stages of development, the most difficult and most exciting of which is adolescence. And today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary who as a teenager will commit herself to doing God’s will in... More
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