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The Vatican’s recent pronouncement about end-of-life issues has raised new questions, and posed new challenges, for a lot of Catholics. And Robert McClory has decided to take a hard look at them in the Chicago Tribune: For severely ill patients, particularly Catholic ones, the choice of hospital has suddenly become more complicated. Following a declaration…

That great Talmudic scholar, Woody Allen, once said that “90% of success is just showing up.” He probably didn’t realize it, but he could have been describing the message at the heart of this morning’s gospel. Because in the parable of the persistent widow, we are given a valuable lesson about what my grandmother might…

Looking for a little spiritual direction? Someone who can unfold the mystical map and point the way? (Or, at least, make sure you don’t get lost in the woods…?) Elizabeth Tenety has been ISO (in search of) a spiritual director, and describes the process in her Washington Post column: I have been doing a little…

I’m headed for a weekend retreat with my brother deacons at this place. I’ll see you all again next week. Meantime, rest assured: you will all be with me in my prayers. Blessings to you all,+ Deacon Greg
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