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When Catholic entrepreneurs take the leap

By Christina Capecchi
Matt Martinusen lost his job at a precarious time. He was the sole breadwinner, and his wife, Lisa, a stay-at-home mom, had just had their third baby. The nonprofit Matt had been working for was running out of money due to COVID-19. They had to let him go. It was the day before his birthday. […]
4/8/22
Reading Time 3 min

The contrasts in Palm Sunday

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
GOSPEL COMMENTARY April 10, Lk 22:14-23:56 Palm Sunday is a study in contrasts. For example: The meekness and innocence of Christ and the kingdom of God is set against the cold-heartedness of Pilate and the Roman Empire. The mercy of God is set against the injustice of the world. Reflecting on Luke’s account of the […]
4/8/22
Reading Time 3 min

On pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe

By Fr. Will Nyce
“Behold your mother.” This was Our Lord’s final request before his death. Standing by the cross and looking to Mary, the beloved disciple was the first to receive this key to the spiritual life that Christians have employed down through the centuries: Be imitators of Christ by loving his mother. These words are perhaps the […]
4/4/22
Reading Time 4 min

A Marian shrine, stateside

By Patricia Kasten
GREEN BAY — We all know about the famous Marian shrines: Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Lourdes in France. But did you know there is a church-approved apparition of Mary right here in the United States? The site is known as the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion. Bishop […]
4/1/22
Reading Time 3 min

A way forward

By Steven Oetjen
Gospel Commentary April 3, jn 8:1-11 They “made her stand in the middle.” This woman, who had been caught in the act of adultery, was now all of a sudden in the midst of a sort of trial. She must have felt trapped. Perhaps she wished to herself, “If only I could take it back. […]
4/1/22
Reading Time 3 min

Abortion travel benefits?

By Olivia Gans Turner
As most of America knows, some states recently have provided greater protections to unborn children, which has resulted in appeals to the Supreme Court. Most of the attention this past year has been on the Mississippi law that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation (Dobbs v. Jackson), and Texas laws that are awaiting court […]
3/30/22
Reading Time 3 min

Get unstuck

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Stop me if this sounds familiar. You go to confession regularly. You confess basically the same sins every time. Nothing serious, just your “regular rotation” of garden variety vices. You generally, at the time, intend to stop. But there’s a part of you that wonders what you would confess if you jettisoned them. So, you […]
3/29/22
Reading Time 4 min

Question Corner: Friday abstinence for vegans

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Friday abstinence for vegans What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Ind.) […]
3/28/22
Reading Time 4 min

40 Days 40 Ways

By Catholic Herald
Daily Lenten reflections to transform your family. Challenge: Today, try and use your words for only good. Stop if you find yourself saying something negative or judgmental. Reflection: (Bearing all things) implies limiting judgment, checking the impulse to issue a firm and ruthless condemnation: “Judge not and you will not be judged” (Lk 6:37). Although […]
3/28/22
Reading Time 4 min

The gift of the Eucharist

By Paul H. Rhee
I knelt in awe before Jesus in the monstrance. It was finally 5 p.m., I’d finished all my classes for the day and it was time for adoration. I went to my seat in the chapel and knelt down in my pew as one of the faculty priests exposed Our Lord in the monstrance and […]
3/25/22
Reading Time 2 min

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