Most of us humans are opacarophiliacs.  It means that we have an attraction to sunsets.  Though it can happen anywhere, people especially like to gather on beaches to watch the sun go down over the water’s western sky.  We are amazed at the spectacular and unique array of colors and we quietly wonder how brilliant […]

Christmas offers us a rare moment when culture and Christianity coincide.  The melding of sacred rituals and secular routines in a loving embrace is like the union of Saturn and Jupiter forming the Christmas Star.  In the darkest hours of the northern hemisphere, we look to the brightest of all spiritual lights; even brighter than […]

As the year of Covid’s rampage comes to an end and vaccines begin to get distributed, we straddle a tender time.  We realize that the severity of loss will continue; we know to remain vigilant and to heighten our caution.  Though hope looms on the horizon, we are not yet out of the woods.  Many […]

As friends and fellow citizens of earth, we dialogue.  If our talk involves examination or exploration, we discuss.  Sometimes, in the verbal intercourse, we disagree.  Periodically, we debate.  If the parties conversing offer authority or analysis, we might discourse.  Occasionally, we discern.  Eventually, we make some sort of decision or determination.  Earlier this year, I […]

Like other annual occasions this year, our 2020 Borromeo Academy Prayer Luncheon was an on-line remote event.  Through the gracious blessing of angel donors’ matching challenge gift of $50,000.00, parishioners and other benefactors gained tremendous incentive to join us.  Because of your generosity, we met the challenge and raised nearly $150,000.00 to provide scholarship assistance […]

Many of our Catholic hierarchical leaders in America are not fans of President-elect Joe Biden—perhaps with substantial reason.  The atmosphere is very different from sixty years ago when the Catholic world was elated by the election of John F. Kennedy.  Celebrated then was the fact that a Catholic could become leader of our Waspish nation, […]

In the days of Thanksgiving and Advent, many families discuss how they want to direct their end-of-year giving efforts.  Please consider Saint Charles Borromeo Academy.  It’s time for our fourth annual Borromeo Academy City-Wide Prayer Luncheon.  Like every other event in this Covid-year, it will be a virtual affair this time around. I invite you […]

John Paul II is a saint.  In my mind, there is no doubt about it.  But even saints carry scars of the human condition by which we are wounded in our earthly journey.  He was not perfect; in some ways, he was quite flawed.  The recent report about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick reveals how the […]

Four years ago, this month, our school’s Sustainability Team decided to reverse the bad news that Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Grade School would close after nearly seventy years of operations.  In spite of a negative financial trajectory and downward enrollment trend of the prior decade, the team saw a great opportunity to introduce here to […]