Many Catholics are asking themselves this question. It is important to let it challenge us. We are in a difficult situation, and it is healthy to admit it. Otherwise, we...
Tuesday, October 25, 20160199Do I have a choice in this election? Many Catholics are asking themselves this question. It is important to let it challenge us. We are in a difficult situation, and it...
Friday, October 21, 20160200Sometime in my early scholastic years, I developed a sense that education was a competitive game. One was asked to know the correct answers to questions. It was not of...
Friday, October 7, 20160256As he departs for his new role as the Prefect for the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life at the Vatican, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell reflection on how his life has...
Thursday, October 6, 20160245Every year in September, the Congregation for Bishops sponsors a course of formation for bishops newly appointed and ordained in the previous year. More than 150 bishops...
Conscience is a popular topic today. It seems to me that during my grandparents’ generation (I am 32), Catholics did not speak much about conscience. People then were...
Tuesday, September 27, 20160126Conscience is a popular topic today. It seems to me that during my grandparents’ generation (I am thirty-two), Catholics did not speak much about conscience. People...
Monday, September 26, 20160162The biblical faith expressed in both Old and New Testaments does not lend authoritative support to those who draw a personal map to a God of their own devising.
Friday, August 26, 20160391It is with a sense of sadness that I write this last Back-to-School message. As I prepare to leave the Diocese of Dallas for Rome, I look at our Catholic schools with...