14 Lessons We Can Take Home From Francis’s Visit
Now the Pope’s visit to the United States is 10 days old, I wanted to share the top lessons I saw. I had a special opportunity to be at many of his events when he was here and to watch some others on TV or YouTube Live Stream. The Pope had a lot of different...
31 People Inspired by Pope Francis (who I met)
I was blessed to go to all the public events of Pope Francis in DC and the concluding Mass in Philadelphia. While there I went around with a microphone asking people what they thought about Pope Francis or what made them get up to see him. Why did I do this? I have 3...
Define a Catholic Lay Movement If You Dare
I dare you to try. If you can give a complete definition, I’ll give you a gold star. Even John Paul II struggled with this definition: “What is meant today by “movement”? The term is often used to refer to realities that differ among themselves, sometimes even by...
A Secret to Understand Francis (Both Liberals and Conservatives Miss the Point)
We’ve been blessed with two popes who were great teachers: John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Now we have Pope Francis who seems to create confusion and require retractions more often in two years than we had in the previous twenty. We’ve seen him retract his statement...