Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen You’re Walking the Wrong Way
Episode 324
Friends, we come to this Third Sunday of Easter, and our Gospel is Luke’s account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. This masterpiece is a summa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Agents of Divine Mercy
Episode 323
Friends, we continue our celebration of the Easter season on this Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday. Mercy, St. Thomas Aquinas says, is co…
3 years, 2 months ago
Let Christianity Be Weird!
Episode 322
Friends, Happy Easter! Christ is risen—Alleluia, Alleluia! Recently, I had a public conversation with the popular historian Tom Holland. Someone from…
3 years, 3 months ago
All the Way Down
Episode 321
Friends, on Palm Sunday, the culminating point of Lent, the Church reads from one of the great Passion narratives from the synoptic Gospels. But I wa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Is Death the End?
Episode 320
Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is John’s story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Let’s face it: we are all haunted by death.…
3 years, 3 months ago
I Was Blind and Now I See
Episode 319
Friends, on this fourth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is one of the most magnificent stories in the Gospel of John: the healing of the man born blind. J…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Thirsty Soul
Episode 318
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we are again getting back to spiritual basics, and the first reading from Exodus and the Gospel from John both…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Friend of the Lord Jesus
Episode 317
The readings for the Second Sunday of Lent brought to mind my good friend Bishop David O’Connell, who was killed last month. He was one of the most C…
3 years, 4 months ago
Time to Get Back to Basics
Episode 316
Friends, we come now to the holy season of Lent, our preparation for Easter. I've often said that Lent is a time to get back to basics. It’s like whe…
3 years, 4 months ago
Love as God Loves
Episode 315
Friends, we continue our reading of the marvelous Sermon on the Mount. We cannot read this sermon as one ethical teaching among many. Everyone from P…
3 years, 4 months ago