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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Palm Sunday

Daily prayer: Palm Sunday

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to...

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The greatest event

The greatest event

Fr. Fergus Clarke, a Jerusalem-based Franciscan friar, likes to say that he has a bone to pick with my old boss, Richard Nixon. He did it yet again...

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Pilgrimage and going blue

Pilgrimage and going blue

Pilgrims Ron, Michelle, Matt, and Catherine watching live Los Angeles Dodgers opening day action over breakfast Friday morning from Jerusalem. Jesus...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: