Any pain is unpleasant; however, the pain of loneliness can be excruciating, piercing to the core of our inner being. Pain, by nature, grabs our attention and invites us to address it. Yet we can choose to ignore, suppress, tolerate, […]
Some things hamper human longevity and well-being. Living with air pollution increases our odds of dying early by five percent. Living with obesity, by twenty percent. Excessive drinking, by thirty percent. And living with loneliness? Loneliness increases our odds of […]
Schedule updated on Monday 21, 2024 https://youtu.be/GN20PmvBP-U VIA CRUCIS by Franz Liszt Good Friday
This past Sunday, May 5, was the day of the Broad Street Run. It was a rainy gloomy Sunday. Our Sunday Mass attendance was half of what it has been over the past few months. Saint John’s Mass attendance is […]
When I was a boy in a Catholic elementary school, each year each class created a May altar. The statue of Mary was placed on a pedestal and decorated with cloths, flowers and art. I remember looking at each class’s […]
Hanging above my desk in my office is a print of the home of Saint Catherine of Siena. The picture depicts the way the home looks today. A few years ago, I was in Rome for a meeting and I […]
Father Roch Raible, OFM Cap was my high school earth science and biology teacher. Father Roch loved nature. He was one of the foremost experts on the ecology of Western Pennsylvania and was consulted as an expert by universities and […]
When I moved to Saint John’s Church in 1991 from Cleveland, I was astonished to see that Center City was a vibrant downtown–attractive to businesses, residents, students, shoppers and tourists. I was familiar with downtown Pittsburgh and Cleveland; but I […]
I have been associated with Saint John Church since 1991, though for most of that time I was a resident in the friary with work elsewhere. I don’t remember in those years a time when a bishop came to […]
I have in my office pictures and statues of my favorite saints. When I pray in my office, I call to mind my heavenly heroes. I pray for their intercession and I try to imitate them. One of my favorite […]