What Manner of Hands They Ought to Be
A Father Entrusted With the Whole World He who acts as an ambassador on behalf of the whole city—but why do I say the city?...
Hope in darkness
From Hopes to Hope Many years ago, as I was standing in the rain in front of the grotto at Lourdes on a cold February...
Beholding the glory of the Lord with open face
Yesterday afternoon at Knock I had the privilege of addressing an outstanding group of Irish priests, most of them younger men, and some with only...
Father Blake gets it right!
“It isn’t the priest but Christ who comes to save the world; if he is fortunate on a few occasions in his priesthood, when he...
De profundis
Coming Out of the Depths It sometimes happens that youthful souls allured by the poisonous glamour of sin, or even souls long tormented by deeply rooted...