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Spiritual grandparenting at Fiat Days

By Sr. Constance Veit, LSP
As a kid I always associated two things with the first day of school — getting new shoes and having to write about what I did during summer vacation. My siblings and I never really had exceptional summer adventures but I have fond memories of beach outings, camping trips, museum visits, swimming lessons and hours […]
9/7/23
Reading Time 3 min

How to travel lightly: the great de-clutter

By Christina Capecchi
My next-door neighbors have been packing up to move for the last month. The empty nesters are downsizing, and I’ve watched their weekslong purge with a mix of horror and admiration. High school letter jacket? Give. Handmade desk? Give. Barbie clothes sewn by Grandma? Give. Almost everything had to go. There was no longer space […]
9/7/23
Reading Time 3 min

Offensive speech

By Russell Shaw
As the Supreme Court revs up for a new term, the justices are being asked to tackle this question: Should pro-life activists have to pay multimillion-dollar fines for publicizing the fact that Planned Parenthood makes money by selling the body parts of aborted infants? The court could say as early as the new term’s Oct. […]
9/7/23
Reading Time 3 min

Christian self-denial

By Fr. Joseph M. Rampino
Gospel Commentary Sept. 3 Mt 16:21-27 A dear friend once recounted to me the experience of flying across the southern Balkans on the way to Istanbul: “I saw all of northern Greece there, outside the window, Mount Olympus, Thessaly, Macedonia. Within 10 minutes I could see the Hellespont, the site of ancient Troy, then in […]
9/2/23
Reading Time 3 min

Parents, protect your children from education agenda

By Susan Ciancio
News reports about what is taught in schools across the country become more alarming by the day. Depending on where you live, your school system and the teachers within could be attempting to indoctrinate your children into believing ideas like gender is fluid, sex can be with anyone they want as long as it’s safe, […]
8/29/23
Reading Time 3 min

Pray for prodigals

By Elizabeth Foss
The back-to-back feasts of St. Monica and St. Augustine always bring the prodigal son to my mind. A holy woman in the ancient church, St. Monica was married to a pagan whose morals were deplorable. And her son, Augustine, was a boy after his father’s example; he joined the Manichean sect and lived a life […]
8/28/23
Reading Time 3 min

Vatican peace talks

By Russell Shaw
Unless the Ukrainian army’s current counteroffensive ends in clearcut victory for either Ukraine or Russia — an outcome that seems unlikely at the moment — it is possible, though hardly certain, that conditions then will finally exist for a ceasefire and peace talks leading to the war’s conclusion. Since the counteroffensive presumably will continue for […]
8/28/23
Reading Time 3 min

Essentialism at home

By Elizabeth Foss
In the waning days of summer, I tend to have a “nesting urge.” I want to put things in order around myself so that I maximize efficiency for all of us as the school year begins. No matter what my own work schedule is, an academic year schedule is ingrained in me. So, I’ve been […]
8/28/23
Reading Time 4 min

Unsinkable ship

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
Gospel Commentary Aug. 27 Mt 16:13-20 Recently, engineers have developed a type of boat that will always right itself if capsized. No matter how thunderous the waves may pound the ship, how deep it might be submerged, or how topsy-turvy it might find itself, it always comes bobbing back to the surface, right side up. […]
8/26/23
Reading Time 3 min

Tested through trials

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
“When the dark night of trials arrives, or when we must cross through desert regions, all that counts is the desire burning in the heart like a fire, if one has bothered to keep it lit,” said Father Roberto Laurita, a diocesan priest from northern Italy. What is this desire burning like fire that he […]
8/19/23
Reading Time 3 min

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