Bishop's Column

BISHOP KEVIN J. SWEENEY Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: In place of my column this week, I invite you to take

“An initiative which stems from the desire of Pope Francis (as expressed in the letter he wrote to Archbishop Rino Fisichella in

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no

Dear Bishop, On December 27, 2021, my 6-year-old son, Dominic, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma (brain cancer). From that moment, my family endured

“… I would encourage our students as well as our parents to be very mindful that we educate and form the whole

An opportunity to visit Guadalupe and ‘Villa de Las Ninas’ Ten months ago, on Oct. 6, 2023, I celebrated a Mass for

“… You are both body and soul; treat gently the manifestations of human fault, even as you pray for knowledge of things

In what we call a “Three Year Cycle” of Gospel Readings for Sunday Mass, the Church reads from Matthew’s Gospel in “Year

    During my last weeks in the seminary, in 1997, shortly before ordination to the priesthood, the priest who was the

The Beauty of the Church and the Power of the Eucharist May the Heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be