UPON THIS ROCK Mary of Knots Like many Catholics, I have a rosary that I carry in my pocket. I’m not sure how I got into the habit, but it has been with me for most of my life. I go through lots of rosaries because they tend to eventually break: a tiny strand of its...
UPON THIS ROCK Word Cereal Polarity is natural but polarization stymies progress and stability. Community and communion are good, but communism is not. Secularity is a reality, but secularism is damaging. The clerical state can be holy, but clericalism is evil....
UPON THIS ROCK Bonds of Brotherhood For the past five years or so, I have met periodically (roughly quarterly) with a group of guys who desire to deepen their spiritual lives. Their nucleus is the Rockhurst High School Class of 1990, though a few others, including a...
since we’re back in the game I’m going to ask us to do something a little different for the Lord’s prayer today 51:34 I’m going to ask you to leave your pews and go to the side walls so that we can 51:40 form an entire circle around the church...
Please Don’t Tell Me Quite often, church officials, when told by parishioners about something that is not in-line with ecclesial norms (even if they agree with it), will say: “Please, don’t tell me…” The issue might center around what they’ve chosen to do with the...
