Sister Colleen knows the deal
Over the past few months, it’s been impossible to miss a series of TV ads from Florida-based Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. In our area, they go by Rally’s. The series of ads spotlight various menu items, but they all end with the same line: “Fast-foodies know the deal!”...Read full story »
Thursday, September 06, 2018
No news is just plain great!
Recently in The Message, Bishop Joseph M. Siegel recommended unplugging from the news as an effective way to begin regaining a sense of control over the emotions and stresses associated with the ways our culture has devolved when it comes to dealing with conflict. Over the past 3-4 months, I haven&...Read full story »
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Making safe schools even safer
Over the past 5 years, I have visited almost all of our diocesan Catholic schools. I left every campus visit happy about the levels of security – and, thus, safety – our schools provide daily for their students, faculty and staff. Recently, I learned that our school administrators are w...Read full story »
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Big days approach for St. Peter, Montgomery
Mark July 15 on your calendar, and July 18 and 22. St. Peter Parish in Montgomery is turning 200, and there’s a major celebration in the works. History fascinates me. God has blessed me to be close to some places with significant places in the historical record. Some of them are part of our 1...Read full story »
Thursday, July 12, 2018
'The Catholic school difference' is our way of life
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial that likely caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in some circles – because it heralded “the Catholic school difference” that we in the Diocese of Evansville embrace as a way of life. WSJ editorial writers used a st...Read full story »
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Did you know you were a blessing?
I direct the question that serves as this column’s headline to readers of The Message who are of predominantly European descent. Your families built this diocese throughout the 1800s and 1900s – long before it became the Diocese of Evansville. You are mostly German, and I am at least a...Read full story »
Thursday, June 07, 2018
'Better late than never'
Thomas McFall took to Twitter last month with a series of posts about something he experienced in an Ohio college classroom. You … I … all of us … need to hear this story, as told in a series of Twitter posts that I’ve combined here. McFall writes: “Hey guys, I know I...Read full story »
Thursday, May 24, 2018
The tests of time
“ … and then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you….” (Lyrics from “Time” by Pink Floyd, from the album “Dark Side of the Moon”) When Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album was new and climbing toward No. 1 on the...Read full story »
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Cisco Lloveras showed us the face of 'the saints next door'
In my opinion, Cisco Lloveras was the kind of person Pope Francis had in mind when he wrote “Gaudete et Exsultate,” an apostolic exhortation in which he seeks to “re-propose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunites&#...Read full story »
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Salvation's menu
In the Gospel for this coming Sunday (April 15), Luke recounts Jesus’ appearance to the disciples following his encounter with two of them along the road to Emmaus. As a way of showing his believers, once again, that he rose from the dead, he took a piece of fish and ate it in front of them (...Read full story »
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
