Is Clericalism Alive and Well?
Mark Shea over at Catholic Exchange today offers a piece on clericalism and links it to the women’s ordination movement saying in essence that the female who longs for ordination…
The First Busted Halo® Wedding
I’m in Charlotte today with Marion for the wedding of my friends Jonathan Louie Ong and Marianne Duca (our friend Karena has Haze the Dog–ruff!) and it is the first…
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Young Adults Inspire South African Bishop to Question Hierarchical Structures
Bishop Kevin Dowling, (A redemptorist) from South Africa offers the following thoughts that others including America Magazine’s Fr James Martin, SJ, (h/t to the good Father) have been noting positively…
Nos vemos en la comunión (I Will See You in Communion)
I asked Notre Dame’s Tim Matovina if I could tell this story that he shared with us at the Symposium at Notre Dame a few weeks back. It was one…
How Do You Make Decisions?
I just returned from the Collegeville Institute in Minnesota where we discussed “vocation” in reference to college students. We’re not merely, talking about religious vocations to the priesthood, religious life…
Like Bees in the Honeycomb
St Benedict says that the Monks should be “as busy as bees in the honeycomb” and that is exactly what has happened these past few days here in Collegeville, MN…
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…