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Month: May 2021

Community still feels impact of Floyd’s murder, related events a year later

Posted by | May 27, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , |

Last summer, protests focused on racial justice and police reform followed George Floyd’s death in the Twin Cities and around the country. Rioting also broke out in St. Paul and Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.

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“I Go to Mass Because it’s What Men Do”

Posted by | May 27, 2021 | |

Earlier in my priesthood, I served as the vicar of vocations for my diocese, working extensively with young adults. In this way, I came to have a deep appreciation for the younger generation. Even as they struggled with entitlement, loss of purpose, an…

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Bill Gates and Ersatz Virtue

Posted by | May 27, 2021 | |

Bill GatesIn this day and age, what does it mean to be a virtuous person? Despite his ruthless business practices, his cruel treatment of his employees, his association with known pedophiles, and his less-than-gentlemanly propriety with women, Bill Gates had, for a time, the answer. Be a humanitarian. Virtue is not a way to live your […]

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Transgenderism and the End of the Sacramental Order

Posted by | May 27, 2021 | , , , |

Transgender“The Incarnation is the hinge of salvation” and “Iconoclasm as a denial of the Incarnation is the summation of all heresies.” The first quotation is from the second-century apologist Tertullian and the latter was penned by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. These two statements can well be applied to our present cultural crisis; namely, the rise […]

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Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Posted by | May 27, 2021 | |

Reading I Sir 42:15-25

Now will I recall God’s works;
    what I have seen, I will describe.
At God’s word were his works brought into being;
    they do his will as he has ordained for them.
As the rising sun is clear to all,
    so …

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