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Three more years

By Lucia A. Silecchia
As we celebrate Independence Day this year, I can’t help thinking that we are now in the three-year run-up to our nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. In some ways, three years seems like a long time away.  Yet, if advancing years have taught me anything, it is that time passes far more quickly than I […]
6/30/23
Reading Time 3 min

CDU at 40

By Russell Shaw
Forty years ago, Marianne Evans Mount had a bright idea. Why not a Catholic correspondence course in religious education? Four decades later, that idea has grown into a fully accredited, degree-granting institution — the Catholic Distance University — with an international student body, expanding curriculum, and big plans for the future. “We bring education directly […]
6/30/23
Reading Time 3 min

Priorities

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
Mt 10:37-42 July 2 Our Gospel reading for this Sunday is challenging, especially for those of us blessed with strong family ties. Often, the first love we really knew was that of our mom and dad. Yet, here is Jesus asking us to love him even more than family. That’s a hard saying. As a […]
6/30/23
Reading Time 3 min

Bride or corpse?

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
June 25, Mt 10:26-33 “I hear the whisperings of many: ‘Terror on every side! Denounce! Let us denounce him!’ … But the Lord is with me, like a mighty champion: My persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.” Right off the bat, Jeremiah’s words to us in today’s first reading have us thinking about persecution. […]
6/24/23
Reading Time 3 min

Happy Father’s Day!

By Mary Beth Bonacci
You also may want to send some congratulations my way. For what may be the first time in my 30-plus years of writing this column, I remembered to write about a special day in advance of that day, so that you could read about it in a timely manner. This, of course, is a difficult […]
6/16/23
Reading Time 5 min

God’s love

By Fr. Jack Peterson, YA
June 18 Mt 9:36—10:8 Last month, we celebrated Mother’s Day. Fittingly, I took the opportunity to reflect upon the incredible gift that my mother, Nancy, was to me. She died in 2008 and, God willing, rests now with the Lord and all the angels and saints in heaven. What always stands out to me is […]
6/16/23
Reading Time 4 min

Clear vision, vital goal, persistent engagement

By Jeff Caruso
A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision restored the power to protect life from the moment of conception to the people and their elected representatives. As a result, many states have implemented laws that are saving thousands of preborn children. More than half of the states, however, have few limits on abortion. Virginia […]
6/15/23
Reading Time 2 min

Hope on the battlefield

By Elizabeth Foss
Some days you wonder how to take the next step, how to keep moving forward with purpose and determination (and maybe even joy?) when you’re walking a road that you didn’t choose and you don’t particularly like. You wonder how you will find the grit and determination and strength to just live through another unforeseen […]
6/15/23
Reading Time 3 min

The example of Sr. Wilhelmina

By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Much attention has been paid to a recent, startling discovery: the well-preserved body of Benedictine Sister Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary, (1924-2019), the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. Thousands have already flocked to the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo., to see Sister Mary Wilhelmina’s body […]
6/15/23
Reading Time 3 min

Embracing Mary’s heart for modernity

By Deacon Gerard-Marie Anthony
During this Marian Year in our diocese, we should look to our Blessed Mother to lift our hearts amid all that can bring us down in society. Our Blessed Mother tells us to do whatever Jesus tells us (Jn. 2:5). What does he tell us? He says, “Let your hearts not be troubled” (Jn 14:1). […]
6/15/23
Reading Time 3 min

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