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Themes for surviving ‘ordinary time’

By George Weigel
I’m fortunate to hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching these days leans far more toward moral exhortation than biblical exposition. This strikes me as a missed opportunity. For if one of the tasks of preaching today is to help the people of the church “see” the world and […]
6/23/15
Reading Time 3 min

Proclaim the truth of the Gospel

By Russell Shaw
The first and arguably most important thing to say about the Pew Research Center’s new overview of American religion is that it offers no grounds for either complacency or panic. What it does instead is invite – perhaps demand – that it be taken very seriously by responsible church people. In its first “religious landscape” […]
6/17/15
Reading Time 3 min

Fathers’ Day and decades

By Soren Johnson
The inexorable passage of time that any father faces is, well, humbling. Our children race through the days and years, and we wonder what sticks. But as anyone knows, we carry memories of our dads with us. Heaven knows why only a few moments – words, gestures, embraces – arise from the dross of time. […]
6/17/15
Reading Time 3 min

Parents transmit church teaching on marriage by example, pope says

By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Children need to see their parents kiss each other, complement each other and resolve arguments peacefully, Pope Francis said. “Dear parents, your children need to discover by watching you that it is beautiful to love another,” the pope told parents participating in the annual pastoral conference of the Diocese of Rome. Parents […]
6/16/15
Reading Time 3 min

Pope: Concern for poor is sign of Gospel, not red flag of communism

By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Focusing on poverty and sacrificing for the poor are the heart of the Gospel, not signs of communism, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. Furthermore, if Christians don’t dig deep and generously open up their wallets, they do not have “genuine faith,” the pope said June 16 during the Mass in […]
6/16/15
Reading Time 2 min

The Feast of Corpus Christi

By Fr. William P. Saunders

Q: I recently learned that the feast of Corpus Christi was inspired by a Eucharistic miracle. Can you please give more details about this? - A reader in Springfield

6/10/15
Reading Time 3 min

He sees you

By Elizabeth Foss
There are days (and nights, lots of nights) when mothers feel as if they are toiling in obscurity. Who sees the things that require all our time and attention? Who hears us begging a baby to go to sleep because the clock is ticking into the wee hours of the morning and our sleep time […]
6/10/15
Reading Time 3 min

Compassion for suffering souls

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Sometimes the opening is the hardest part. I’ve been sitting here for quite some time, trying to come up with a clever or profound or even just passable way to open an article about Bruce/Caitlin Jenner. It isn’t easy. And so I turn to Facebook for distraction. I find no distraction, but rather that Vanity […]
6/10/15
Reading Time 4 min

The Kingdom’s growth

By Fr. Paul Scalia
Deep within our fallen human nature is that desire – indeed, insistence – to control. Ever since Adam and Eve grasped for the fruit, we have wanted to be in the know, to have a say, to “control our destiny.” Our technological culture exacerbates this desire by giving us a false sense of actually knowing […]
6/10/15
Reading Time 3 min

The myth of Washington gridlock

By George Weigel
“Gridlock” along the Potomac – the difficulties the Congress has in getting things done, the difficulties the Congress and the White House have in cooperating to get things done, or both – is regularly deplored by pols, pundits and citizens alike. My contrarian view is that this kind of “gridlock” can serve useful public purposes, […]
6/10/15
Reading Time 3 min

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