Father Talks Too Fast

Hi there. As the title says, these aren't homilies. These are the audio files of the 75-to-90-minute adult education classes I lead on M...

This took a lot of workshopping (and probably two befuddled congregations) to try to figure out how the turn the phrasing of the key distinc...

Humans were created with passions. You can't be a human very well without them. And yes, the way Thomas Aquinas uses the word "pass...

I assume that almost everybody over 50 years old has heard some variant of the sermon idea (spin? take? clown show?) that Jesus didn't a...

Of the three attempts at this homily on Ephesians (with a lot of Galatians and Genesis too), all of them had two or more flubs, so I just ha...

I covered at a different parish this week, so I had to do a little bit of background on 2nd Corinthians before diving into the reading of th...

So many great letters by St. Paul for so many situations. You need encouragement? Read Philippians. Frustrated by imperfection in your churc...