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Easter is not a question mark

By George Weigel
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The Tallis Scholars are a marvelous a capella ensemble, but most of their music that night was rather too minimalist for my tastes. In any event, the author of the program […]
3/23/16
Reading Time 3 min

Between grief and joy

By Elizabeth Foss
I’m in a precarious position as I write this column. It is the Friday before Palm Sunday. We are but a few days from Holy Week. This column will be published on Holy Thursday, just as the most somber days of the year begin. Three days later, it will be Easter, the most jubilant day […]
3/23/16
Reading Time 3 min

Is a funeral Mass required? What about fasting?

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. Unless illness prevented it, I have attended daily Mass most of my life. (I love starting the day with the Lord in his house!) Now in my late 80s, I have already paid for my funeral arrangements. Because I have only a few relatives still living, I have requested that there not be a […]
3/23/16
Reading Time 3 min

As if it really happened

By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
The Resurrection is about new life. The historical moment of Jesus’ Resurrection changed the world. At the time it happened, few people knew about it, and fewer understood it. It was God’s plan to allow the power of His victory over the grave to spread to many people, not in a dazzling way, but in […]
3/23/16
Reading Time 3 min

Irish soda bread or tea cake?

By Ann M. Augherton

What is the difference between the traditional soda bread and tea cake?

3/17/16
Reading Time 2 min

The real bucket list

By Karen Osborne
The movie “The Bucket List” inspired the public to reflect on what each person wants to do before he or she dies. Ever since the movie came out a few years ago, everyone seems to have been busy imagining what they want to do in life. Even teens I know have made bucket lists. From […]
3/17/16
Reading Time 3 min

Mother Teresa to be canonized Sept. 4

By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican Sept. 4. The date was announced March 15 during an “ordinary public consistory,” a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process. At the same consistory, the pope set June 5 […]
3/15/16
Reading Time 4 min

Come and see

By Fr. Jack Peterson, Ya
Watching a loved one suffer is always an upsetting experience. Running away from them is even worse. During Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday, we are given the opportunity by the church to journey with Our Lord through His dark night. Don’t let this week go by without trying to put on Jesus’ sandals and […]
3/15/16
Reading Time 3 min

Little Sisters of the Poor: Why we can’t ‘just sign the form’

By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
A few weeks ago, I received a New Year’s card that read, “This will be the best year yet.” We Little Sisters of the Poor are fervently praying that 2016 will be remembered as the year we were able to return to our quiet lives at the service of the elderly after a happy resolution […]
3/11/16
Reading Time 4 min

Why is the pope called ‘Your Holiness’?

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. A Protestant friend asked me recently why Catholics sometimes refer to the pope as “His Holiness.” He wondered whether this is meant to imply that the pope is in essence holy. I had to admit that I had no idea. Can you enlighten me? What is the origin of that title? (Sioux City, Iowa) […]
3/9/16
Reading Time 2 min

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