The late Fr. Luigi Giussani, who founded the international Communion and Liberation movement, sometimes is hard for me to follow. Our School of Community is reading his seminal work “The Religious Sense,” and, to be honest, I would find it tough to grasp were it not for the skilled summaries provided by the woman who leads our weekly group. This weekend, I bought another of his books, one that is easily accessible to me: “The Risk of Education. “ The... Read more

Last night, the hundreds of us who gathered at a conference center in New Jersey for the East Coast Fraternity Exercises had the chance to listen to some witnesses – folks who found a way to verify Christ’s presence in our lives. One young woman’s story moved me deeply because I found in her story traces of my own experiences.  Who among us has not faced an unfair boss or the struggle to be recognized in the work place?This March,... Read more

Father Dwight Longenecker hits my interest in this event right on the head, What interests me specifically about the recent high profile prediction of the Rapture is that I was brought up in a fundamentalist church where dispensationalism was the interpretative key. We had an awful lot of sermons on Bible prophecy and the ‘end times’. We were taught that the Rapture was just around the corner, and although our pastor never set a date he always taught that it... Read more

About 10 last night, we celebrated Mass in a huge meeting room at the Hamilton Park Hotel & Conference Center, which bills itself as being designed “with the sophisticated traveler in mind.” Well, we are a motley crew, some 200 adults of varying ages and stages.  Father Richard Veras, chaplain to Communion and Liberation, reminded us in his homily that what happens in this conference room during consecration is no different than the apostles encounter with Christ during the Last... Read more

Here’s the thing. Tomorrow is the Rapture, but as Tim LaHaye’s scholarly exegesis proves (?!), Catholics are going to be “left behind.” Guess what else? It’s a rolling rapture, see, because God honors our man-made time zones. Didn’t know that, didja! I betcha also didn’t know that the Zombie Apocalypse comes right on the heels of the Rapture. Hmm? That’s theology I’m makin’ up as I go. So pay attention, because the rapture and zombies go together like peas &... Read more

What a difference a year makes. Last May, the leader of our fledgling School of Community invited me to stop by the annual spiritual retreat of the East Coast participants of Communion and Liberation. So I drove up for lunch at a conference center in Florham Park, NJ to meet Webster Bull, the man who started this blog and who introduced me to Communion and Liberation. I didn’t know much about CL, and visited its East Coast Fraternity Exercises with... Read more