Happy Sunday everyone! I invite you to listen to today’s homily in the video below, which begins around the 28:20 mark. Please pardon my misquote towards the end of the homily referring to Jeremiah rather than Elijah. The homily begins at the 28:20 mark.
As most of this readership knows, Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe and I made a pilgrimage of peace to Hiroshima and Nagasaki last August. During that visit we had substantial conversations with the Bishop of Hiroshima and the Archbishop and Archbishop Emeritus of Nagasaki about forming a partnership to advocate Read more…
I’ve posted the homily below from today’s Mass. Also below is a slideshow of a selection of photos from today’s commemoration. As always, thanks to Stephen Brashear for his photographs! God bless you, and all you do to promote peace in our world! One year ago today, I celebrated Mass Read more…
Seventy nine years ago, August 6, 1945, an American B-29 dropped the first deployed atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Roughly 80,000 people were killed instantly, while tens of thousands more would die in the months that followed. On August 9 another atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing another estimated 40,000 Read more…
In today’s world there is much strife and sin, yes. These many manifestations of strife can at times capture our attention to the point where we begin to think it is the prevailing reality of society or of human nature. However, the truth is that each person is created in Read more…