By Russell Shaw
Americans, a goodly number of them anyway, are angry. Opinion polls and both parties’ primaries are evidence of that. But will this anger be put to good use or squandered? At the moment, squandering appears the better bet. A passage I stumbled across while reading Josef Pieper’s wonderful little book The Four Cardinal Virtues got […]
6/21/16
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By Elizabeth Foss
I remember the ride home from the hospital with each of them. Nine times, putting precious cargo – so tiny and new and miraculous – into the car. Nine times, driving ever so carefully, with the unspoken understanding between us that the world was a dangerous place and we were here on earth to protect […]
6/17/16
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By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
Each year since 2012, Catholics in the United States have observed the Fortnight for Freedom in preparation for Independence Day July 4. The theme set by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for this year’s fortnight is “Witnesses to Freedom.” Fourteen men and women who bear witness to freedom in Christ – one for each […]
6/15/16
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By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
Jesus loved being with His disciples. He was always teaching them and pursuing an overall goal of preparing them to live in union with Him. In the passage we willingly hear and pray this weekend, we find the Master Teacher accomplishing a “breakthrough moment” with the disciples. While it is of interest to do a […]
6/15/16
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
A few weeks before Father’s Day, the world lost one of its great fathers. I first met Daniel Sullivan through my friend Anne, the seventh of his eight children. She and I were taking a road trip through New England and we stopped in Connecticut where I met her glorious Irish family – presided over […]
6/15/16
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By George Weigel
Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s unlikely that this man of faith, humor, intelligence and profound humility would appreciate my putting it that way. His 2015 book, God or Nothing, is selling all over the world, currently available in 12 languages with more to come. The book […]
6/10/16
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By Elizabeth Foss
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” Those words were published in C. S. Lewis’ The Weight of Glory in 1949. If the world was starved for solitude and silence and privacy then – before the internet and ubiquitous computers we […]
6/8/16
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By Fr. Jack Peterson
A nameless woman offers to Jesus one of the most extraordinary acts of love and devotion seen in the Gospels. She encounters the living God and discovers love Himself who bestows on her His tender mercy. This encounter leads her to pour out her love in an exceptional act of devotion. Known as a sinner […]
6/8/16
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By Carolyn Woo
I recently had the privilege to deliver commencement speeches at a few Catholic universities and colleges. Humbled by the fact that few people remember what their commencement speakers intoned at these ceremonies, I tried to keep the message simple and, hopefully, partially memorable. This year, I focused on the unforgettable starting points for all of […]
6/8/16
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Delaying Tactics