Lyn Dam

First, some perspective: As of today (Friday, March 6), there are there are around 200 (per National Public Radio; the Centers for Disease Control reports 164) cases of  COVID-19 in…

First, dear ones, some words to think about, and not just in February: “In the African American experience, justice is something visceral; it is an ache, a groan, an inner…

Here’s Fr. Dirk’s homily from Thanksgiving Day: Gratitude is a tricky thing. People always want you to make a list of the things you’re grateful for, and you’re supposed to…

Literalists. Literalism. Literally. Someone who takes the Bible literally – sometimes literalists in this sense are called letterists, which is a nice word but doesn’t really help explain anything –…

Do you suffer from confirmation bias? Yes, friends, confirmation bias has always been a problem and it’s a big problem now. We’re told it’s related to apophenia (yes, the dreaded apophenia).…

Just over a year ago Pope Francis directed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (as every schoolchild knows, a summary of official Church teachings on a number of topics) be…

Fifty-Dollar Bill sounds like the name of a gambling cowboy, doesn’t it? Or perhaps a gamboling cowboy? Here comes our gamboling cowpoke, jumping and skipping down the trail. For years a…

This (June 21) is the feast of St. AloyisiusAlloyississMississippiAlAloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591). Aloysius, the patron saint of youth, is one of three Jesuit “boy saints,” the other two being St. John…

A couple of items for the good of all. Or three. OK, eight. Eight? Eight. Sad to say, parishes in the archdiocese are still being plagued with text and email…

  We’re past it for this year (past it but not done with it), but it’s worth noting that the Holy Triduum (Or more properly the Sacred Paschal Triduum, consisting…