Category: Faith & Spirit

Some 500 years ago, the Protestant Reformation divided the Christian Church. Until that time, all Christians in Europe had been Catholic. The Reformers continued to divide among themselves, while Catholicism continued to hold fast to her theology and traditions. Because religion was so much a …

  As we speak, the Pope is at the White House. It’s not the first time in history, but it is historical. There was a time, in my lifetime, when that would not have been possible. Catholics have always been held in some places, as …

Jesus lived for most of his life in one place, a town of maybe 200 people in the north of what is today the State of Israel.  It was a town called Nazareth.  He was born about 100 miles south of there in Bethlehem, then …

Last week, because of the readings, I spoke to you about kindness and being nice to other people. Well, that didn’t work out so good. I can’t tell you to be mean, but I can quote St. Paul when he says in today’s first reading: …

There was a book, later made into a movie called “Lone Survivor”. It was about a Navy Seal team in Afghanistan who were eventually surrounded by Taliban fighters. As the title indicates only one Navy seal survived. The reason he survived is because he sought …

In the beginning of the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, we read about the “Spirit of God” moving above the oceans. In Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, the word for “Spirit” is “Ruah”. It’s onomatopoetic, that is it sounds like what it …

It was a Tuesday morning. Ordinarily, I don’t watch much T.V,  never in the mornings. For some reason, I just turned on the news and for the next few hours, was riveted to the T.V. It was mesmerizing, unbelievable. I was in McCall and organized …

Historians have named at least 38 people called “The Great” people like Alexander the Great, peter the Great and Catherine the Great of Russia, and Charlemagne whose name in French means Charles the Great. Of the 266 popes in history, only three have been formally …

To our guests, I am Fr. Don Fraser, chaplain here at BK.  I want to join all of us here at Bishop Kelly in welcoming our friends from Bishop Manogue.  Its a long journey and we appreciate the opportunity to renew our connections and friendships.  …

Today is the Feast of St. Augustine, one of the most important theologians of the early Church.  He was born in the middle of the 4th Century in North Africa, in what is now Algeria.  At that time, all of North Africa and the Middle …