A group of Creighton faculty and staff recently visited the Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota to learn more about the issues facing American Indians and to assist some of the students in preparing scholarship At mass ...

Today’s psalm sings for me, in more ways than one. The obvious reason is that it has been recast as Responsorial Psalm music by several authors, perhaps most familiarly by David Haas and Marty Haugen. We hear its uplifting ...

Two thousand years ago Christ said "You always have the poor with you." And so we do. What examples did He give us for dealing with these poor among us? He healed the sick, and fed the hungry, and clothed the naked, and ...

I have to admit that today's readings didn't seem to have much meat for me when I first read them. John gives a pep talk to some new converts, the Psalmist recites the blessings that a just person (well, the psalmist said ...

The Annunciation of the Lord Psalm 40: 7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 "Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will." The first part of Psalm 40 relates a thanksgiving to God, who has saved the psalmist (and us) from death and put a new ...

The readings for today don't seem to be in the same mode as those selected for earlier parts of Lent - the "repent, ye sinners, and be saved" admonitions of the prophets. True, Jesus heals the chronically ill man and ...

Two different prayer threads occur to me today from the readings. ||The excerpt from Kings is a wonderful example of what we would call the servant leader, the person who puts the needs of his people above his own. Here ...

The readings for today resonate with resurrection themes. The full passage from Ezekiel (I always find it hard to read the excerpts if they don't tell the full story) is a step-by-step process of raising the dead, from ...

In the United States on this day we pause in our lives for a secular holy day, a thanksgiving for our many personal and collective bounties. Sharing time with family and friends and reflecting at some level on the blessings ...

I have to admit that as I have aged, and hopefully become a little wiser, my perception of this parable has changed significantly. When I first encountered it as a child, it seemed to say "Keep asking for what you want, ...