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Happy Father’s Day! 12th Sunday             How appropriate that today we hear  our Gospel from the Sermon on the Mount! During this time of the corona pandemic and protests over racial inequality, we hear Jesus says to us: “You are worth more than an entire flock of sparrows.”             At…

If you look carefully at the accounts of the Resurrection in the Scriptures, you’ll notice that there are a lot of questions raised in the course of the narrative. Let’s look at two of those questions this Easter morning.

John Sexton is an attorney and academic who served as president of New York University from 2002 to 2015. Formerly Dean of the School of Law, Mr. Sexton continues to serve NYU as Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law. A lifelong Catholic, Mr. Sexton graduated from the now-defunct Jesuit high school Brooklyn Prep, later earning a B.A. in history, an M.A. in comparative religion and a Ph.D in history of American religion from Fordham University. He earned his J.D. from Harvard University and has authored several books including “Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game” in 2014.

5th Sunday of Lent – 2020             A major theme that runs through St John’s Gospel is the continuing conflict between life and death. Recall that two weeks ago we heard the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. He offers her “life-giving water.” The water is the sign of…