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.
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...
In all of the scandals in the Church and in how I can get occasionally infuriated with some elements within the Church, I can honestly say this: It has not diminished my belief in God at all. It has not diminished my belief in Christ at all. It has not...
One of the more overlooked facts from the parable of the Prodigal Son is that after the younger brother has wasted all his inheritance, he knows his father is merciful. He counts on that mercy, but does not presume upon it; he only expects his father to bring him on...
