Over 50 years ago, when I was a seminarian at St. Bernard’s Seminary in Rochester, New York, Christine Jorgensen, the first American to undergo a sex change operation, made a guest appearance at …
more
2/8/18
|
It’s a safe bet that most people reading this Quiet Corner article are not axe murderers, terrorists or guilty of laying violent hands on the Holy Father.
Few readers will have sins as colorful …
more
By Fr. John A. Kiley
|
10/26/07
|
Fewer aspects of traditional Roman Catholic piety have changed more over the past 100 years than the various practices of self-denial that motivated and strengthened the saints and the faithful over the centuries.
more
FATHER JOHN KILEY
|
2/25/10
|
Mary Kenny, columnist for the Irish Independent, writes of the sex-abuse and cover-up scandals that have devastated the Catholic Church in Ireland.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
|
1/11/13
|
The ancient Jews, and today’s Jews as well, are certainly God’s chosen people. St. Paul rightly praises the divine selection of the Jews when he writes of his Jewish people, “theirs is the …
more
Fr. John A. Kiley
|
12/6/18
|
The Scriptural Holy Land, today most generally known as the Republic of Israel, was, in the time of Christ, easily divided into three portions. Judea, on the south bordering Egypt, was quite solidly …
more
1/23/20
|
Advent is customarily a season of hope for the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises and Scripture’s prophecies. The four weeks before Christmas are filled with prophecies and …
more
12/1/22
|
Father John Farley was a legendary philosophy professor at Our Lady of Providence Seminary College in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. An insightful teacher and a clever preacher, Father Farley would arrive five minutes late for class with his signature cup of coffee, lengthy cigarette butt and scruffy cassock.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
|
8/27/09
|
What’s all this fuss about bullying? Once in St. Charles’ schoolyard in Woonsocket, Francis Marrah punched me right in the eye.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
|
9/28/12
|
Masada is an ancient fortification located on top of an isolated rock plateau in the Biblical province of Judea, today’s southern Israel. The surrounding land is generally desert. Picture a TV …
more
Fr. John A. Kiley
|
6/29/17
|
St. Francis of Assisi’s dramatic conversion from young man about town and failed soldier into “the most Christlike of all the saints,” as Pope Pius XI noted, was greatly assisted by a line of …
more
Father John A. Kiley
|
6/30/16
|
Many believers were taught as children that the easiest way to recall the goals of prayer was to remember the simple word “PART.” Petition, Adoration, Reparation and Thanksgiving are all …
more
9/21/23
|
Once a month I bring Holy Communion to the Alzheimer unit of a swanky assisted living facility located in the parish.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A KILEY
|
11/7/08
|
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is labeled pastor, martyr, prophet and spy, by Eric Metaxas, author of a new biography about the Lutheran clergyman executed by the Nazis toward the end of World War II.
more
BY FATHER JAMES A. KILEY
|
11/3/11
|
History does not exactly recall Jesus Christ as a rabble rouser, but Jesus did engage in provocative behavior. Twice, once at the beginning of his public life, and once at the end of his public appearances, Christ disrupted the business of the Temple by overturning the money changers’ tables and driving the pious dealers away with a whip.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
|
4/4/14
|
Like most old people, I wake up very early, usually 5 a.m. My morning coffee is already perking, set the night before on automatic timer. Perhaps I’ll have a slice of toast. But then I take my cup …
more
Father John A. Kiley
|
5/3/18
|
Rothenburg, Germany, located on the Tauber River, about halfway between Nuremburg and Frankfurt, is the world’s supreme Christmas Tree Shop. The village abounds with brightly cloaked Father …
more
4/20/23
|
One of the liturgical innovations that made an appearance (and also a disappearance) during the 1970s and 80s was the “Litany of Praise.” A series of brief invocations was read after Communion by …
more
6/6/19
|
Josef Ratzinger, later known to the world as Pope Benedict XVI, was born at 4:30am on Holy Saturday, April 28, 1927. Later that same morning, at 8:30am, the future pontiff’s father took the …
more
6/30/22
|
My old professor, Father Charles Curran, is the center of controversy once again. Father Curran was the moral theology professor at St. Bernard’s Seminary in Rochester, then controversially at The Catholic University, and lately at Southern Methodist University in Texas.
more
BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
|
12/10/10
|