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This delightful video shows an Australian Franciscan friar, Fr. Gabriel, using his own unique skills to minister to young people. There’s a lesson here, I think, for us all. (But shouldn’t this guy wear a helmet??) H/T Roman Catholic Vocations.

Shortly after I posted this item, soliciting feedback about how Jesus has changed your life, I read this piece that illustrated it, through the profound heroism and stoicism of one ordinary priest: Father Tom is one of the sweetest and holiest men I have ever known: a thoroughly priestly man with a profound sense of…

A retired priest who once worked at my parish — and who many years ago was pastor to the very first deacon ordained in the Diocese of Brooklyn — has asked me to spread the word about a project he’s launched. Anyone can participate. How can I say no? He wrote about it not long…

“An event that commentators repeatedly described as an ‘only in America’ catharsis had its closest parallel overseas. No inauguration has generated the kinds of crowds and emotions that surrounded Mr. Obama’s. In recent memory, the event that probably came the closest was the pilgrimage that John Paul II made to his native Poland in 1979,…
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