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 see many posts just tearing up millennials and younger people as super entitled, ignorant of reality, and thin skinned. While I vehemently disagree with the concept that entire groups can be painted as a singular group with singular traits, I ask the question: if it be so, then how...
When did Sunday go from being the Day of the Lord to an hour for the Lord?
I am sure that many priests can say this: In all of January, there were only 2 days that I took off. Granted it was a brutal month for funerals. My next day off isn’t for several weeks. This came to light after a family invited me to dinner...
I am your pastor… You don’t need me to be your buddy but your shepherd. You don’t need me on the barstool beside you but in the breach between you and the devil. You don’t me to spout pious platitudes but to offer comfort and truth. You...
In the Scriptures, the most dominate image of the relationship between God and us is that of family. We use familial terms such as groom/bride, son/daughter/father/mother, and brother and sister to describe the relationships that are supposed to exist between God and us and among ourselves....
I am grateful that many Catholics are starting to wake up to the awareness that there is much they do not know. On the other hand, I want to smack my head on brick walls. Why? It represents a resounding failure on the educational apparatus of the Church. I do...
