By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
My sister was upset with her adult daughter and her husband (who is a convert to Catholicism) when they took holy Communion recently after having missed Mass.
9/27/18
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By John Garvey
Next month, Pope Francis will host a synod of bishops on the theme of "Young people, faith and vocational discernment."
9/27/18
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By Elizabeth Foss
Recently, my son and his wife presented twins to be baptized. After the sacrament, I nuzzled two sweet heads and inhaled deeply. And I pondered what it means to be a baptized woman in today’s church.
9/24/18
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
My sister was upset with her adult daughter and her husband (who is a convert to Catholicism) when they took holy Communion recently after having missed Mass. She told her daughter that they had committed a mortal sin by missing Mass and then, again, by receiving Communion without first going to confession. She had brought up the matter before with her daughter. Is my sister being judgmental and wrong, or would this be considered helpful guidance in getting her daughter and her family back on God's path?
9/24/18
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
I am in my 50s and have now been divorced for three years. I was married in the Catholic Church and have always attended Sunday Mass regularly and received Communion. But I have begun to wonder whether I should still take Communion.
9/24/18
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By Maria Pia Negro Chin
Years ago, when I interviewed Kathy DiFiore, an exemplary woman who founded a network of shelters in New Jersey for homeless teenage mothers and abused women, she mentioned how the inspiration for her ministry came while she was praying, "Lord, make me a channel of your peace."
9/19/18
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By Sr. Constance Veit, Lsp
Growing up, many of my family’s summer vacations took place at the ocean. Whenever we could afford it we would head for Cape Cod, New Hampshire or Maine.
9/19/18
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By Russell Shaw
The speaker was a highly sophisticated layman, possessor of a doctorate and professor of theology at a major Catholic university.
9/19/18
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By David Gibson
The gunman who fired the shot in El Salvador March 24, 1980, that killed San Salvador's revered Archbishop Oscar Romero while he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel surely did not aim to help create a martyr whose life and legacy one day would be honored throughout the world.
9/19/18
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Welcome and unwelcome
A storm-tossed sea would not be a good place to teach someone to swim.