2 10, 2025

Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)

By |2025-09-29T02:06:37+00:00October 2nd, 2025|Theology|

Guest Post:  One of the evangelization tracts I keep in my truck is a small pamphlet called:  Suffering:  How to make the greatest evil in our lives our greatest happiness.  It was written by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, an Irish Dominican born in 1871 (seen in the above picture.)  Yes, yes, I know—your eyes probably just glazed over at the notion of reading about suffering from a Dominican from the 19th century.  You already know what he's going to say?  But there's a reason I keep this in my truck.  It brings tremendous meaning to both Catholics and non-Catholics who are suffering (every person on the planet) so I encourage you [...]

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7 09, 2021

Rivers of Living Water

By |2021-09-04T02:23:09+00:00September 7th, 2021|Theology|

Et sustínui qui simul contristarétur, et non fuit: et qui consolarétur, et non invéni.—Ps 68:21 Many people ask me with our crisis in the Church, "What are we to do?"  At the risk of sounding saccharine-sweet, I'm going to propose that one of the best things you can do is to give your heart to Jesus to let His heart break in yours here on earth over the state of the Church.  If St. Teresa of Avila wrote, "Christ has no hands but yours; Christ has no feet but yours," and since we know that Saul (before becoming Paul) in persecuting the Church was literally persecuting Christ-Himself (cf. Acts 9:4) [...]

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12 04, 2020

Resurrection and the Problem of Pain

By |2020-04-13T17:52:24+00:00April 12th, 2020|Theology|

I have thought a lot about "The Problem of Pain" this Lent. The Problem of Pain is the modern atheist's main objection to believing in God:  How could an infinitely good God who is infinitely powerful allow so much evil on earth?  Indeed, there have been many books written to defend the existence of God and the goodness of God. But the one line that kept returning to me this Lent was: "Why must we suffer? Because here below, pure love cannot exist without suffering."—St. Bernadette. This sounds like an oversimplification of an answer to the Problem of Pain, but it is the most perfect explanation I have ever read [...]

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14 09, 2019

The Cross vs. Emotional Fulfillment in Marriage

By |2019-09-16T00:18:27+00:00September 14th, 2019|Theology|

By Fr. David Nix and Leila Miller As I have said in many sermons and blog posts, Catholics that use contraception have the same divorce rate as the rest of the United States—roughly 50%. Catholics who refrain from contraception have a divorce rate that is only 3%, even when all studies are averaged. But what about those 3% of Catholics who get a divorce while avoiding contraception? Crisis Magazine did a study about 15 years ago to ask why young Catholics who avoid contraception were getting divorces.  The answer was one:  They did not expect to suffer much in marriage. This blog post is written by my friend and author, [...]

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14 04, 2017

In Cena Domini

By |2019-04-05T17:52:32+00:00April 14th, 2017|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Tonight's podcast is from the Traditional Latin Mass for the Supper of the Lord (Cena Domini.)  This sermon is about the connection between the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Priesthood, and why Jesus transfers His suffering and leadership to His priests.  We will see that both the leadership and the suffering of priests are for the life of the world.

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26 12, 2016

St. Stephen and Rogue One

By |2016-12-26T19:03:03+00:00December 26th, 2016|Theology|

Spoiler alert on Rogue One for the second half of this blog post. Today is the feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr of the Catholic Church. His martyrdom is found in Acts chapter 7 and it contains the jarring testimony of a young deacon who chooses God’s religion over man’s intertwined religious games. Although engaging the high-powered Jewish religious leaders of Christ’s own time, St. Stephen is fearless in proclaiming how Jesus Christ is the fulfilment of all the Hebrew Scriptures. Before being stoned to death, Stephen recounts to the Pharisees all of Salvation history. Then he accuses them: "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. [...]

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24 10, 2016

23rd Sunday After Pentecost 2016

By |2019-11-16T20:44:56+00:00October 24th, 2016|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This homily is about victory in loss and how good comes from evil in your life. We took these pictures in Rwanda two years ago.   In the top picture, the Blessed Mother appeared in Kibeho in 1981 and 1982 in a Vatican-approved apparition.  Below, we walk in a Eucharistic procession through the streets that—only 20 years prior— the dead had been macheted in the genocide.  Now the King of Life and Love triumphs over death on the streets.  

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