Sitemap - 2025 - Message From the Margins
The Treasure We Already Carry into the New Year
The Fake “War on Christmas” That’s Actually Hurting Christianity
An Open Letter to Vice President JD Vance
The Holy Family: Anything but Traditional
Keeping Christmas While You Celebrate
10 Gentle Ways to Cultivate Joy This Christmas Week
The Church Said “No” to Women Deacons… For Now
Christmas Week Is Here: Living It Well
The Fourth Sunday of Advent: Learning to Love
Advent Is Harder When Everything Is Loud
Pope Leo's New Shepherds: MAGA Ally Cardinal Dolan replaced by Missionary Bishop
Advent: Waiting for God to Break In
How are you doing... really? - 10 Steps to Improve Your Holiday.
The Tragic Death of Rob Reiner, and Trump's Abhorrent Response
We’re Back, And Building Something Holy Together
Returning to the Work God Gave Me
When Christ Comes Among Us: Matthew 25 in a Faltering World
Gratitude on Black Friday: Faith in a Consumer Culture
Happy Thanksgiving, From Fr. Rich
When Love Is Refused: The Terrible Beauty of Judgment
Gratitude as the Remedy for Grief
Gratitude Amid Scarcity: Holding Hope When Resources Run Thin
When Love Forgets its Own Holiness
Finding Space for Gratitude in a Chaotic and Distressing World
Come, You Blessed: The Real Surprise of Salvation
When the King Takes His Throne of Mercy and Fire
A Little Something Different Today - "When You Welcomed Me" an Original Song
When Christ Comes in Disguise: Entering Matthew 25
A Pope Who Breaks Bread with the Trans Community
A New Week, A New Mercy: Starting Again with God
When Privilege Fails Us: A Christian Response to the Epstein Files
Commies, and Socialists, and Fascists, Oh My!
Why the MAGA Movement Cannot Reflect the Way of Jesus
The Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Marriage Equality
What It Means to Lose Gracefully
Hope for the Days When You Are Just Holding On
I Watched a King and a Pope Pray—And I Learned Something
When Courage Meets Faith: Remembering Saint John Paul II
When Faith Becomes a Wall, not a Bridge
I Have Loved You: Pope Leo’s Call to Welcome the Stranger
When Tears Speak Louder Than Words
No Kings Day – A Christian Reflection on Power, Pride, and Freedom
Walking for Dignity: Father Graf’s 800 Mile March for Migrants
When “Therapy” Becomes Harm: The Court, Minors & Conversion Bans
The Gospel According to Power Isn’t the Gospel of Christ
Echoes of Rome in Our Cities: A Christian Reflection on Troops in the Streets
A Prayer Answered: A Hope for Peace in Gaza
Today is the day- Here Are Your 6 E-Books!
Dolly Parton Has Given Us So Much. Now She Needs Our Prayers.
Pope Leo Calls out Trump on Immigration "Inhumane"
Sunday Homily: You've Gotta Have Faith
The First Woman Becomes the Top Bishop of the Church of England
Government Shutdown - When the Work of the People Is Held Hostage
The Action Hero Pope, the Governator, and God’s Call to Stewardship
Pope Leo Responds to Hegseth and Trump’s Military Rhetoric - "Concerning"
The Abortion Trap: It’s Time for Catholics to Walk Away from MAGA
The Return of the Department of War: Christians Cannot Cheer This On
Words Matter: We Are Called to Defend, Not to Wage War
An Open Letter to Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Pope Leo XIV Shows Us the Way Forward
The Root of Gun Violence Isn’t Politics — It’s the Loss of Love for Our Neighbor
Alligator Alcatraz is Closing! An Answered Prayer.
What it Means to Me to Be Pro-Life
What Would You Like from This Space?
Clarity in the Chaos: Why Message from the Margins Exists
No, the Rapture Isn’t Happening Today (I think)
If They Can Silence One Voice…
What Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Teaches About the Paradox of Tolerance
Special Edition: The Bitter Fruit of Lies
A Little Behind the Scenes: A Dream for Peace
Enough Is Enough: Grieving for America, Hoping for Peace
Phillies Karen and the Parable of the Home Run Ball
International Buy a Priest a Beer Day
Meet the Teen Gamer Who Just Became a Saint
Pope Leo makes it clear: Science and Faith Co-Exist
Running Toward Politics to Divest Myself of It
Behind the Scenes: First Podcast Recording Day
The Messy Truth About the Apostles
Enough Is Enough: A Call for True End to the Tyranny of Firearms.
Why Didn’t God Protect Them? A Pastoral Response to the Annunciation School Shooting
Target Abandoned DEI: Now Their CEO Has Lost His Job.
Our Hearts Are Restless Until They Rest in You
A Prayer for the Victims of Annunciation School Mass Shooting
The Power of a Mother’s Prayer
The First Step to Justice Is Telling the Truth
God’s Work in Medicine: Why Banning Vaccines Betrays the Gospel
Care for our Planet Is Pro-Life: What the Church Can Teach the World
The Title Catholics Give to Mary...
A Feast Day for a Controversial Saint
See, I make all things new again...
🌿 Social Justice Round-Up: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This Is the Day that the Lord has made...
A World on Fire / Families Divided
Mary Makes Her Irish Exit... Feast of the Assumption
Special Edition: The Social Justice Roundup
That awful Feeling You might Have... Is Grief.
When the Flag Becomes the Golden Calf
To the Woman Who’s Holding It All Together (Barely): There Is Holiness in That
The Light That Breaks Through: A Meditation on the Transfiguration
You Could Be Living a Different Life One Year From Now
The Bible Is Not a Weapon - And beware if you use it as one.
The Radical Nonviolence of Jesus
This Week in Justice: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Beautiful Mystery of Friendship
This One is for the Victims of the “Prosperity Gospel” (AKA a Scam)
Cruelty is the Sacrament of MAGA
Wednesday Social Justice Roundup
Spirituality and Mental Health: Holding Faith Through Anxiety
From the Margins: The False Gospel That’s Poisoning America
Sabbath Thought: “Come to Me, All Who Are Weary…”
Jesus Wasn’t a Nationalist (and That Shouldn’t Be Controversial)
Wednesday Social Justice Round-Up
BREAKING ALERT: US to Incinerate 500 Tons of Lifesaving Food.
How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Christian Nationalism
Welcome! Why I Started Message from the Margins
When the World Breaks Our Hearts
The Harvest Is Ready. Will You Go?
The Kingdom Where the Lowly Are Lifted Up and the Mighty Humbled
The Mystery of God’s Love for the Poor
Here's to the LGBTQ+ People Who Keep Climbing the Tree
Pray, Breathe, Heal: The Rosary’s Hidden Medicine
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Beats for You
“By Their Fruits You Will Know Them”
A Voice Still Cries out in the Desert
When Illness Becomes Holy: The Legacy of St. Aloysius Gonzaga