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To bake is to believe: A convert in the kitchen

By Christina Capecchi
Staci Perry bakes like she lives. She doesn’t measure. She works with what’s already in the fridge. And she scrapes every last bit out of the bowl. “I don’t do anything fancy,” she says, sitting in the kitchen of her century-old farmhouse two miles north of Verdi, a tiny, windswept town by the Minnesota-South Dakota […]
5/31/16
Reading Time 3 min

‘Blessed are those who mourn’

By Fr. Robert Wagner
If we love, we cannot escape mourning, for mourning is the result of losing a loved one. Inevitably, this loss occurs in the lives of each and every one of us. Even with our hope in the Resurrection of the just, the death of a loved one still means a loss in this world – […]
5/31/16
Reading Time 3 min

Dorothy Day, crusader

By Russell Shaw
It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in her autobiography The Long Loneliness, she described it like this: “The smell from the tenements, coming up from basements and […]
5/31/16
Reading Time 3 min

Stepping through the looking glass

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: “The President of the United States has announced that, in order to continue receiving federal funds, all public schools must allow boys into the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.” And it’s not even from The Onion. Seriously, I feel like I have stepped through some kind of […]
5/25/16
Reading Time 3 min

Hope in an afternoon with youths

By Maria Pia Negro Chin
It is always a privilege to get to see people glorifying God through their work. Their example reminds me of a verse from St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians: “Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment […]
5/25/16
Reading Time 3 min

Dominican friars to make pilgrimage on foot

By Peter Finney Jr.
NEW ORLEANS – The idea of making a walking pilgrimage in the United States took root about four years ago when Dominican Fathers Francis Orozco and Thomas Schaefgen were studying together for the priesthood. They saw the movie, “The Way,” featuring Martin Sheen, who portrayed a father honoring his late son’s memory by completing the […]
5/24/16
Reading Time 3 min

Call and response

By Fr. Stanley J. Krempa
There are many evocative phrases that have inspired generations of people: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” “Read my lips: no new taxes.” “I have a dream.” “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “It’s […]
5/24/16
Reading Time 3 min

Won by one

By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
Jesus said to his disciples: I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. These merciful words of Jesus must have made a mixed impression on the Apostles. They might have felt that he would protect them from more than they could endure. They might have also felt a desire to […]
5/17/16
Reading Time 3 min

On graduation and humility

By Elizabeth Foss
It is the season of diplomas and honors, recognition and resumes. As the flurry swirls around me, I find myself thinking increasingly of humility. When a young person sets out on the course of finding his life’s work, nothing will serve him better than humility. This time of year serves as a powerful reminder to […]
5/17/16
Reading Time 3 min

We can always do more

By Effie Caldarola
In the great movie, “Schindler’s List,” there’s a scene near the end that speaks poignantly to the heart of anyone who wants to do good in the world. The 1993 film tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who, at the beginning of World War II, moves to Poland to make his fortune […]
5/17/16
Reading Time 3 min

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