Working While We Wait

During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House ...

Plowing and Sowing

If God did not bless, not one hair, not a solitary wisp of straw, would grow; but there would be an end of everything. At the same time God wants me to ...

Watch Where You're Giving

I will never forget a woman who came to the food pantry at our church. She also needed a little money to pay her next month's rent. When she came ...

Mother Teresa's Math

When faced with the question about how she could hope to make an impact on Calcutta's 3,000 slums with refugees pouring in daily, Mother Teresa said, ...

The Unselfish Archbishop

When John Chrysostom became archbishop of Constantinople, he sold expensive works of art his predecessors had acquired. He refused to give lavish dinner ...

To Kiss a Leper

One day while Francis was praying fervently to God, he received an answer: "O Francis, if you want to know my will, you must hate and despise all ...

Seeing the Face of Christ

I remember once hearing Bishop Whipple ... utter these beautiful words: "For thirty years I have tried to see the face of Christ in those with whom ...

Sin of Silence

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.

Fighting Words

Peter Muhlenberg gave perhaps the most dramatic sermon of the Revolutionary era.

Though Peter Muhlenberg had preached regularly for the cause of the American ...

Responsibility of Men to Women

Men have the tremendous privilege and responsibility to take women seriously, to call forth all their gifts.