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Two sons, one vineyard, and a major-league umpire on why it's never too late to reverse the call.

Nobody hired them. So the landowner went out one more time. What the parable looks like when you stop reading it from the grumblers' side.

Twenty-five years ago, I wanted revenge. Two months after the attacks of 9/11, my fellow novices and I were asked the impossible: to look at the men who flew those planes with the eyes of Jesus.

My cousins loved my dad and were also afraid of him...on who's selling us fear, and why we're called to something else.

Nobody sells a life all at once. Politicians promise it painless, Peter begs Jesus to skip the cross, and we edit the Gospel down to something comfortable — while the real trades happen in payments too small to notice.

A friend of forty years asked me over dinner what Fulton Sheen thought of Vatican II — and I could hear the worry underneath the question. Two thousand years of rough water, one shaky fisherman, and the question Jesus is still asking. "Who do YOU say that I am?"

A seventh-grader, a giardiniera sandwich, and the day he asked his mother to make him someone else. What a Canaanite woman shouting at Jesus has to say about who belongs at the table.

Peter didn't sink because he made a mistake. He sank because his math was correct - a man cannot walk on water. Being clever can make it harder to notice God standing right in front of us.

One little word - "of" - and Paul's most famous lines mean something entirely different. This podcast explores abundant love, the Greatest Generation, and what it actually costs us to love somebody without keeping a ledger.

A man finds treasure buried in a field and sells everything for it. We find a free moment — and reach for our phones. From an orphanage in Haiti to the screen in your pocket, a question about where our heart is really buried.

Weeds in the wheat, mustard on a hot dog, and a God who refuses to rush to judgment — the kingdom of heaven is closer and more patient than we think.

My assistant, Barb, planted tomatoes outside the windows of Calvert House, and this week they became my homily. In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus gives us two truths to hold together: the seed is always good — God never stops sowing in us — but the soil still has to be tended. Nobody drifts into holiness any more than tomatoes grow on a sidewalk. Join me for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

A special edition on Independence Day

Our laws start out well-meant, but.....