Homily on the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year ASirach 27:33–28:9 | Psalm 103 | Romans 14:7–9 | Matthew 18:21–35 Some wounds heal quickly, but others can stay with us for years. A word someone said. A betrayal. An injustice. A disappointment. Something someone did to us that still…
The Catholic Boom that no one expected and has the Protestant world in shock
More than 21,000 adult and teenage baptisms in France. An average 38% increase across the U.S. dioceses surveyed. Catholics outnumbering Anglicans two to one among young British churchgoers. The numbers are on the table, they are verifiable, and they refute half a century of prophecies about the death of the…
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Ceuta, 2026: The Border Spain Forgot
Opinion This week, while half of Spain argued about the heat wave and the other half about soccer, the city of Ceuta — under internationally recognized Spanish sovereignty since 1668, more than a century before the United States existed, for those keeping score —¹ lived through something diplomats call “migratory…
Ignatius, the Knight Who Conquered the World for Christ
“Fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience” (1 Tim 1:18-19) A Cannonball That God Turned into Grace There are battles that are lost so that a higher war may be won. On May 20, 1521, during the defense of the fortress of Pamplona against Franco-Navarrese…
Homily — Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
The Wisdom to Find the True Treasure Readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7–12; Psalm 119:57, 72, 76–77, 127–128, 129–130; Romans 8:28–30; Matthew 13:44–52 Brothers and sisters, If God appeared to us in a dream tonight and said, “Ask me for anything, and I will give it to you,” what would we…
Homily — Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Readings: Isaiah 55:10–11 · Psalm 65 · Romans 8:18–23 · Matthew 13:1–23 The Word That Never Returns Empty My dear brothers and sisters, There is a quiet scandal at the heart of today’s Gospel, and Jesus does not hide it. He states it plainly: the same seed, sown by the…
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11J: Cinco años después — Memoria, Verdad y Esperanza para Cuba
I. El día en que Cuba perdió el miedo Hace exactamente cinco años, el 11 de julio de 2021, ocurrió algo que muchos creían imposible. Comenzó en San Antonio de los Baños, un pueblo de la provincia de Artemisa, y en cuestión de horas se extendió como fuego por más…
11J: Five Years Later — Memory, Truth, and Hope for Cuba
I. The Day Cuba Lost Its Fear Exactly five years ago, on July 11, 2021, something happened that many believed impossible. It began in San Antonio de los Baños, a small town in the province of Artemisa, and within hours it spread like wildfire through more than fifty cities and…
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Once Upon a Time, a Blue Globe
I wrote this text in Spanish in 2016, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was a one-page essay assigned as homework for a course — whose name I no longer recall — during my years of study with the Dominicans, and it originally bore the title “Reflexión verde” (Green Reflection)….
“Cuba Is Dying”: Five Years Later, My Words Still Hurt
There are texts one writes hoping they will age quickly. That within a few years they will sound exaggerated, outdated, mercifully obsolete. The one I am republishing today is one of them. And its tragedy — the tragedy of my people — is that five years later it has not…