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At Sunday Mass the other day, I had a flashback to what Mass was like 10 years ago, when we were new to our 13,000-member parish.
My garden holds countless life lessons; I’m sure of it. We first saw our house in February. New England in February is beautiful, actually, but it’s beautiful in a shades-of-gray-brown kind of way. The only thing I knew about my garden was its pruned-back landscape that I considered while holding an out-of-season real estate picture. When we moved into the house in early July, the garden had unfurled in all its splendor, and we were surprised by joy.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — As Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., presided at a memorial Mass and re-entombment of the body of Father Patrick Ryan at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a possible miracle attributable to the Chattanooga priest may already be in the works.
Recently — when it was still July — a friend sent me a text from the supermarket with a photo of a Halloween candy display in the aisle. I expected that the Halloween blitz would be coming soon. Yet, “back-to-school” sales are still in full swing and, in my mind, August is still summer.
Engaging profile of singer, songwriter, musician and activist Aretha Franklin (Jennifer Hudson), the "Queen of Soul," traces her life from a childhood (during which she's played by Skye Dakota Turner) marked by sexual abuse and the untimely death of her mother (Audra McDonald) through the frustrations of her early career and on to the triumphant success of her version of the titular song and her subsequent global celebrity.
Droll comic adventure in which Ryan Reynolds plays a contented bank teller in a weirdly dystopian city who, like his best friend, a security guard (Lil Rel Howery), goes through his highly repetitive daily routine while blithely ignoring the mayhem constantly unfolding around him until making the startling discovery that he is, in fact, a background figure in a combat-laden, hugely popular video game.
The challenges of being the only hearing member of a close-knit family are movingly explored in this drama, the title of which is an acronym for child of deaf adults.
Former associate professor of history Jesuit Father David J. Collins was chosen as the new program director for the Catholic Studies Program at Georgetown College in Washington. Father Collins is a native of Washington and grew up attending St. Ann School in Arlington.
Tom McGuire retired after a long and fulfilling career in sales and leadership coaching. Despite his vast work experiences, he said he approached Catholic Charities looking for “a sense of purpose.” As a volunteer, he finds fulfillment in serving others, and “not getting on my wife’s nerves.”
When I was 11 years old, wrestling with my brother's recent death, the new parish priest came bounding into our religion class one afternoon. He announced that he would take our questions (submitted anonymously) to answer in his next homily.
