Franciscan University President Sheridan Resigns

Last updated on: April 8, 2019 at 11:35 am By Father Pablo Migone

After six years leading Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, Father Sean Sheridan, TOR, has resigned from his position of president. A statement from Father Sheridan published today on the university website reads: “Not too long ago, I submitted my resignation after a great deal of prayer, and over the weekend, it was accepted by the Board of Trustees.” Father Sheridan will continue as president until the conclusion of this academic year, and looks forward to serving the Church in... Read more

Confirmed: Archbishop Wilton Gregory to Washington

Last updated on: April 4, 2019 at 5:10 am By Father Pablo Migone

This morning Pope Francis announced that Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta will be the seventh Archbishop of Washington DC. The fact that today is the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Atlanta’s most prestigious citizen, Martin Luther King Jr, cannot go unnoticed. Today the Archbishop of Atlanta becomes the first African-American Archbishop of Washington, and could potentially be the first African-American cardinal. How things have changed for good in our U.S. society in these past fifty-one years. Read more

Archbishop Wilton Gregory to Washington DC?

Last updated on: March 28, 2019 at 9:29 pm By Father Pablo Migone

The Catholic News Agency reported this afternoon that Pope Francis is expected to appoint Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta to the currently open Archdiocese of Washington DC, vacated after the resignation of Cardinal Wuerl last year. CNA made it abundantly clear that there has been no formal announcement, so anything can happen until a formal announcement is made in the near future. Who would succeed Cardinal Wuerl has caused tremendous anticipation in the Catholic world of the United States. There... Read more

The Annunciation: the Word became Flesh

Last updated on: March 25, 2019 at 4:43 pm By Father Pablo Migone

The Church remembers today a very concrete moment in the mystery of the incarnation. The Virgin Mary, chosen from among women, agreed to play a singular role in the history of salvation. The girl from the insignificant town of Nazareth was chosen by God to become the Mother of God. As a Christian, there are no places more meaningful or significant than those connected to the life of Jesus in the Holy Land. Among then is the Basilica of the... Read more

First Feast of Saint Oscar Romero

Last updated on: March 26, 2019 at 11:29 pm By Father Pablo Migone

Even though today is the third Sunday of Lent, this March 24th marks the first time the Feast of San Oscar Romero is celebrated since his canonization last October 14th by Pope Francis in Rome. On a day like today in 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was celebrating Mass in the chapel of the hospital’s property where he lived. A car stopped in front of the open doors of the chapel and right after he finished preaching, as he walked toward... Read more

From the desert to the mountaintop, a Lenten homily

Last updated on: March 17, 2019 at 10:39 am By Father Pablo Migone

As a child growing up in Peru, I would see majestic mountains all the time. I could see large mountains down the street from my house even though I lived just about two or three miles from the Pacific Ocean. The highway to my house had the ocean on the right side and mountains on the left. Road trips often involved driving through dangerous mountain passes and seeing strikingly beautiful mountain scenery. Sometimes my dad would stop on the side... Read more

Inicio de la cuaresma en el desierto

Last updated on: March 16, 2019 at 10:55 am By Father Pablo Migone

En Israel hay un monasterio construido sobre un cerro de donde uno ve una de las ciudades más antiguas del mundo, Jericó, continuamente habitada por 11,000 años. Del monasterio también uno ve el rio Jordán, lugar del bautismo de Jesús. Este monasterio donde viven unos monjes griegos marca el lugar donde inicia toda cuaresma: con Jesús en el desierto por cuarenta días. San Lucas escribe que Jesús fue conducido al desierto por cuarenta días para hacer oración y ofrecer sacrificios. ... Read more

Starting Lent in the Desert

Last updated on: March 15, 2019 at 10:20 am By Father Pablo Migone

If you travel to Israel today, you will find a monastery built on a mountain from which you can see one of the oldest cities in the world, Jericho, continuously inhabited for 11,000 years. From the monastery you can also see the river Jordan where Jesus was baptized. This monastery, run by Greek Orthodox monks, marks the spot in the desert where every Lenten journey begins: with Jesus in the desert for forty days. Saint Luke writes that Jesus was... Read more

Un incidente en San Juan Bautista

Last updated on: March 10, 2019 at 10:47 am By Father Pablo Migone

El 6 de febrero de 1803 llegó un sacerdote a la ciudad de Savannah y la pequeña comunidad católica de la ciudad le pidió que celebrara una Misa. El Padre Oliver Le Mercier había sido anteriormente asignado a la Parroquia de San Juan Bautista en Savannah la cual había sido fundada pocos años antes por católicos francófonos quienes habían huido de la revolución haitiana al sur y la revolución francesa en Europa. Estos refugiados huyeron temerosos por sus vidas y... Read more

An incident at Saint John the Baptist Savannah

Last updated on: March 4, 2019 at 5:10 pm By Father Pablo Migone

On Sunday, February 6th 1803, a Catholic priest arrived to Savannah and the small Catholic community requested that he celebrate Mass. Father Oliver Le Mercier had once been assigned to the parish church of Saint John the Baptist in Savannah, founded just a few years before by newly arrived French-speaking Catholics who had fled both the Haitian Revolution to the south and the French Revolution to the east. These refugees fled fearing for their lives and became the first Catholic... Read more