Category: Homilies
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Outcast
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time It looks like we have to talk about it today. It’s not a subject I know a lot about, so I had to do some research. And I can tell you right now, you will wish after this you did not know as much about the subject as I have…
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Election Cycle Blues
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time I have an app on my phone that counts down the days to November 8. 36 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes, 43 seconds, and counting. This is only the 9th presidential election cycle of my life, and as it has with many Americans, I am left wondering what future elections…
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Reasonable Expectations
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Some years back when I was a newly-ordained priest teaching at an all-boys Catholic high school in New Orleans, my students would confront me on occasion with outrageous statements of disbelief. “You’re a priest. You can’t do that.” “And what exactly am I not supposed to do?” I would ask.…
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