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This 1st Sunday of Advent brings the Church to the beginning of a new liturgical year. This Sunday also starts the official season of waiting for Christ – both at the Nativity and at the Parousia or Second Coming. Perhaps this year, we might be more oriented toward the latter arrival of our Savior.

Is Thanksgiving 2020 the mother of all oxymorons? In such a challenging year of loss, conflict and despair, not to mention the sense of isolation, for what can we give thanks? Indeed, there is much. Let George Carlin, Fr. John Kavanaugh, St. Ignatius Loyola, and Jesus be your guides!

Nobody wants to think about death. But it's an inevitability that bears some consideration. As a way of fostering that preparation, the Church reminds us on this the last weekend of the liturgical year of the necessary steps to be taken in order to remove the dread from that unavoidable end-of-life meeting with Jesus.

Throughout the year, Saint Ignatius faculty & staff are notified of the passing of alumni. As Mr. Healey read through the story of one recently deceased alumnus, Robert Anson ’63, he was intrigued by the fascinating life that Anson led, and then it hit Healey that he had heard part of Anson's story before...

Fr. Heinrich Pesch established himself as one of the great Catholic economists of the modern era. His influence is most apparent in the Church’s second great social encyclical, Pope Pius XI’s "Quadragesimo Anno." What's the tie to this weekend's readings? The value of using our literal and figurative talents for the greater glory of God.

In the film "Quiz Show," Charles Van Doren is the darling of the television world as he shows his intellectual prowess week after week on the show "21." But he is harboring a dirty little secret: He has been given the answers by the show’s producers. As Mr. Healey and his classes learn, we have more in common with Mr. Van Doren than we might think.

In this weekend’s first reading, prudence is mentioned in a context that would make all Virtue Ethicists proud: “For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence.” Thus, prudence looks to wisdom in order to find its perfection. As always, Jesus shows and tells us the way.

For the 10th time during his 40 years as a teacher, Mr. Healey began prayer on Wednesday with a petition that the newly elected President of the United States will be successful in the exercise of his duties. As in 2000, it was without knowledge of who would hold that office. Most important, Healey writes, is knowing that salvation can only come through Jesus and His Cross.