The cross of Jesus still speaks

The cross of Jesus still speaks

The year was 1978 near the spring Easter season, and my wife Barbara and I were on our first of many tours to the Holy Land. What an exciting trip and a special time to be in a holy place.…

Secretary Sean Duffy: Let’s Bring Jesus Up from the Basement

As a former member of Congress, now Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy had a reputation for speaking his mind. Unapologetically pro-life, he regularly chastised colleagues for not standing up for the most vulnerable. From the House floor he talked about the “silent screams” of the preborn. “Don’t talk to me about cruelty when you look at little babies being dismembered, feeling excruciating pain,” he once declared. So maybe it’s not surprisi…

This Friday of Dolores marked the imminent beginning of Ceuti Holy Week with the celebration of the already traditional Via Crucis of the Council of Brotherhoods and Confraternities of Ceuta, which this year has been presided over by the brotherhood of Flagellation. Initially, it was intended that it would be the ancient image of the Most Holy Christ of Flagellation that presided over this Way of the Cross, but the rain forced it to turn just as…

I turn thirty this Easter and am reminded daily that I am leaving my youth behind. My body creaks more, my knees climb higher, my vision dulls and it is harder to make new friends. It is precisely in phases like these that one wonders about the big questions. The existence of Jesus and the miracles of the Bible – did they really happen? And if so, what was the biggest? Water into wine, the healing of the lame, sight for the blind – Jesus' wonder…