Seminary Application: Question #1: Are You Gay?
The New York Times has an unbelievable story today about the seminary application process and the concentration on whether someone is homosexual or not. Here’s a snip with a few…
Personal Prayers and Time Off
As Memorial Day falls upon us, I ask you to remember those who have gone before us and given us freedom. Whether in war or in protection of country, or…
Three in One
We often mistake the trinity for three divisible individuals, forgetting that God does all things. So it is always the three persons working in unity together. God the Father doesn’t…
Trying to Control the Sun
It was another wonderful day at Notre Dame filed with much intellectual stimulation. We were all treated to Sr. Mary Johnson, SND’s words on spirituality and then three wonderful vocation…
Hayes Responds to Christian Smith at Notre Dame
Here is the video of me speaking at Notre Dame in response to Christian Smith the author of Souls in Transition which offers much of the latest research on young…
How Many Husbands Do You Have?
So Fr. Edward Beck who you might know from Good Morning America, led us in evening prayer last night. He reflected on the woman at the well and left me…
Separated at Birth?
Greg Welch of Renew International and I pose outside at Notre Dame.
Setting Lectors on Fire
I’m at The University of Notre Dame’s Symposium on Campus and Young Adult Ministry called Stewards of the Treasures of Our Faith. They do this every three years and I’m…
The Spirit Prods: You Can’t Take It With You
I’m moving in the next month from our apartment here in Buffalo adjacent to the lovely campus of Daemen College to our first “real” home. Moving often brings with it…
What One Couple Loves About Each Other
Ginny Kubitz Moyer the esteemed author of Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God (St Anthony Messenger) had this cute column in San Francisco’s Archdiocesan paper…