Fr. Bill Peckman is a priest in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri. He is the pastor Immaculate Conception Parish, St. Mary Parish, St. Patrick Parish, and Sacred Heart Parish.
I believe everyone has that one thing they mourn understanding what they have longed for in this life, they will never ever have. I am not talking about stupid material things. Perhaps it is a particular relationship, or approval for your labors, or freedom from drama, or things of more...
In the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, there is a scene in which Marc Anthony is alone with the body of the freshly assassinated Julius Caesar. He seeks vengeance on the assassins knowing it will send Rome into a killing frenzy. From this scene we hear the words, “Cry ‘havoc’ and...
If you want strong, faithful, and selfless men to be priests, raise your sons to be these things. If you want strong, faithful, and selfless to be husbands and dads, raise your sons to be these things. You’ll do this by cultivating virtue in their lives. You’ll do...
What is it like being a priest these days? It is sometimes sitting in a folding chair listening to your school kids singing Christmas songs. It is sometimes standing by the bedside of person drawing their last breath in this life. It is sometimes being amazed that you are holding...
I got to thinking tonight that we live in a world that increasingly demonizes the holy and deifies the demonic. What do I mean? Our culture deifies rebellion, promiscuity, violence, division, hate, suspicion, and the castigating of our ‘enemies’, real or imagined, all in a mad rush for the accrual...
I have seen more than a few articles as of late as to why our last three generations have been leaving the Catholic faith en masse. There are many cognizant points. As a pastor of 22 years, a member of one of those generations that departed, and a person who...
