By Elizabeth Foss
What is to become of a society where everything is new and moves too quickly to listen to the wisdom of experience?
5/7/17
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By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
I lost my mother unexpectedly last November, after having lost my father following a long illness eight years earlier. My siblings and I suddenly found ourselves “orphans” as we marked our first Thanksgiving and Christmas without either of our parents. Now we are anticipating our first Mother’s Day without Mom. We’ve spent the past few […]
5/4/17
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By Christina Capecchi
Art Cullen’s series of Pulitzer-winning editorials took on powerful agricultural groups for allowing nitrogen runoff to pollute Iowa rivers.
5/4/17
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By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
Gospel Commentary Lk 24:13-35 Jesus had a close friendship with His disciples and was constantly teaching them and forming them. He prepared them for His impending death and resurrection. He tried to prepare them, anyway. It is evident that they didn’t like the idea of Him having to suffer and die. And it is clear […]
4/26/17
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
OK, call me crazy but am I the only one who remembers hearing repeatedly from feminists that feminism was about freeing women to make our own choices about our own lives? If we wanted to pursue high powered careers, we should be free to do that. And if we wanted to stay home and raise […]
4/26/17
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It was a good Lent in so many ways for my family, and as my wife and I got the kids ready for Palm Sunday Mass, there was a sense of anticipation throughout our home. Then I saw the news: Islamic State had snuffed out the lives of 46 Coptic Christians at Palm Sunday liturgies […]
4/26/17
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By Thomas J. Craughwell
Initially, Catherine served the hungry, the sick, the dying — all traditional works of charity for women who belonged to a Third Order. But then, in the early 1370s, she began to preach.
4/25/17
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By Mark Rhoads
I am past 70 and wear hearing aids at mass. But even in a church with good acoustics I often cannot hear the mass due to the crying and screaming of tiny children at mass. I have been told to chill out and just accept the noise and I understand that priests and ushers do […]
4/23/17
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By Ann Johnson
In your photo coverage of Holy Week it would have been nice to have used a picture of a parish foot-washing. There are still parishes that don’t include it in the Holy Thursday liturgy, despite its importance in showing what Jesus is teaching us. (And despite the example of the pope washing the feet even […]
4/22/17
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Gospel commentary: Good Shepherd Sunday
The Lord is our shepherd guiding us through the shepherds He has given us in our Holy Father, our bishops and pastors.