Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Dear Friends, Social media and network news all covered an event in Washington this past week where a group of Catholic High School students were in a confrontation with two different groups protesting at the Lincoln Memorial as they waited for their bus to pick them...
Pastor’s Letter

Pastor’s Letter

Dear Friends, It is commonplace today in television shows, movies, books and music to find religion absolutely absent as if it did not exist and people never go to church. I am not sure when this began to happen, but it is always a surprise when we do run into some...
Pastor’s Letter 1.13.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.13.19

Dear Friends, I am just finishing a vacation in Belize and will be returning to Omaha tomorrow. Since I am not in my “composing a letter mode,” I am offering you a reflection out of Ireland (from Youth 2000) about today’s feast of the Baptism of Jesus: “Almost four...
Pastor’s Letter 1.6.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.6.19

Dear Friends, Pope Francis gave a beautiful homily at the Christmas Mass in Rome. Here is a bit of the homily: Bethlehem: the name means house of bread. In this “house”, the Lord today wants to encounter all humankind. He knows that we need food to live. Yet he also...
Pastor’s Letter 12.30.18

Pastor’s Letter 12.30.18

Dear Friends, The busyness of Christmas may be slowing down for you or perhaps, with the need to meet up with all the members of the family, it may still be going on this weekend and into January. People might think that it used to be more peaceful during the...
Pastor’s Letter 12.23.18

Pastor’s Letter 12.23.18

Dear Friends, I was sitting at a restaurant recently with a friend and she noticed the book I had with me. She commented on the title of the book, “How To Be Unlucky,” and asked if that was really the name of the book, and wondered why I would be reading it. I...