Catholic speaker, musician, author, teacher
Catholic professor, speaker, musician, author, and all-around nice guy.
Have you ever been to the Holy Land? I've had the chance to have visited there three times so far. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I believe that every disciple of Jesus Christ should try at least once in their life to physically walk where Jesus walked. Doing so opens up the Scriptures [...]
I moved to Steubenville in 1994. Though I got accepted into the Master of Arts in Theology program, it was only as a part time student. My main purpose, or so I thought, was to do youth ministry in the Steubenville area. I wasn't even convinced I'd finish the degree! Though I enjoyed the classes [...]
I'm incredibly excited to share with you something amazing that will happen on our campus at the end of July. It is called VOICE + VISION: The National Summit for Ministries with Youth and Young Adults. With the completion of the Synod for Youth, the V Encuentro, and the publication of Christus Vivit, we are [...]
As you have all heard by now, we have a new president at Franciscan University: Fr. Dave Pivonka. This is something many of us at FUS have been praying for, and it is such a joy to have it happen! I first met Fr. Dave back when he was Br. Dave, in the mid-90s while [...]
This is more than an obligation. It is an opportunity to drive out demons and grow in holiness!
Over the past few weeks, I've had many reaching out to me asking a variation of this question: "What is going on at Franciscan?" So allow me to share, from my perspective, what I see happening. I'd like to emphasize the phrase, "from my perspective". I do not portend to be authoritative source on all [...]
I'm an optimistic person. I not only think the glass is half full, I'm glad that it isn't totally full so that there is room for growth. But I was already debating the value of 2018 before my son fractured his femur on our cruise ship. So good riddance, 2018. I'd like to thank everyone [...]
"Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." These are the words we hear Elizabeth say to Mary at the end of the Gospel today. About ten chapters and thirty years later in the Gospel of Luke, when Jesus was doing his public ministry, a woman cried [...]
When I was about 15, my older sister took me to see U2 live in concert. It was their Joshua Tree tour. I had actually only been to one other concert before that, which was the Monkees 25th Anniversary Tour. So, yeah, this was a little different. I actually didn't know much about U2 except [...]
