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 recently posted how the Church is on fire and some of the telltale signs of such a fire. I purposely did not give solutions. That would be done after a few days reaction time. I did not think the post would garner anywhere near the attention it did. I...
The Catholic Church in this country is on fire and has been for decades. Did we not see that when people started bolting for the doors, leaving confessionals in cobwebs, Masses empty, and once thriving parishes mere shells of themselves. Did we not see that when seminaries, religious houses of...
The Bible teaches us that there is not a fence or middle ground with Jesus; He compels us to make a choice. You are either with Him or you are in the Valley of Hinnom (aka Gehenna). The Valley of Hinnom was the garbage dump of Jerusalem in the time...
I learned something very important this week: I can be replaced. I will be replaced. And I am totally okay with that. I learned this lesson yesterday. To make a long story short, the realization came after me spraining my wrist and a comically long ER visit with a camper...
Anything we deem as important, we usually will try to master. You see this with athletes. They will alter exercise routines, nourishment, and upend their schedule to grow better at a sport. You see this with gamers. They will spend inordinate amounts of time and energy to up their skill...
It is not my job as a pastor to protect my flock from having to make hard decisions. We have gotten this mistaken notion in parishes that we must maneuver around every secular activity and only verify that matters of faith are wholly secondary to anything else… We accommodate, dumb...
