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By Zoey Maraist
When Maribeth Harper’s son was 2 years old, he would alternate between tearfully clinging to her leg at the park and racing headlong toward the swing set. His communication style in college reminded Harper of those early days at the park. “He would text me three times in an hour … and then go radio […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
ASSISI, Italy — As leaders of dozens of religions gathered in Assisi for dialogue and prayers for peace, they honored Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as an exemplar of one who is so deeply rooted in his own religious tradition that he can reach out to others without fear. Jewish, Anglican and Catholic leaders […]
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By Russell Shaw
In a message to a gathering of bishops of the Americas in Bogota, Colombia, Pope Francis made a point that’s always worth recalling but especially timely now in this Year of Mercy. Sin exists, he said, within “a history of sin to be remembered.” “Which sin?” the pope asked rhetorically, then answered, “Ours: mine […]
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By Russell Shaw
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments March 26 in a case challenging Texas’s anti-sodomy law, more will be at stake than may appear at first. If the question were only whether to uphold or strike down anti-sodomy statutes in Texas and a dozen other states, most people probably wouldn’t lose too much sleep. Even […]
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
I just read a very interesting article in U.S. Catholic magazine, “A Betrothal Proposal” by Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch. In it, Lawler and Risch argue that modern marital “practice” (cohabitation, then marriage) resembles ancient marital practice (betrothal, then marriage), and that as a Church we should return to a marital “rite” wherein […]
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
Doing the work I do, I come into contact with a lot of Catholic youth ministers. I speak at youth ministry conferences. I work with parish and diocesan youth ministers. And I have friends in youth ministry. In talking to them lately, I?m noticing an alarming level of burnout. They?re tired. They?re frustrated. They?re struggling. […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It was with a sense of certain irony that I read of Attorney General Janet Reno?s attempt to make physician assisted suicide readily available to patients who have been given fewer than six months to live. Just minutes before reading that article, I had learned of the death of Colonel Michael Pennefather, a man whose […]
Columns
By Fr. Jack Petersonherald Columnist (from The Issue Ofâ 2/5/04)
Anyone familiar with Pope John Paul II has been invited frequently in the past few years to ponder Jesus? command to Peter, “Put out into the deep.” The Holy Father made this a central theme of his reflections upon the meaning of the new millennium for those who bear the name “Christian.” Peter, the fisherman, […]
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By Fr. John De Cellesherald Columnist (from The Issue Ofâ 11/20/03)
Today we look at the Gospel reading for the Solemnity of Christ the King, and seem to find not a triumphant king, but the tired and beaten preacher wearing not a crown of gold, but a crown of thorns. A prisoner whom Pontius Pilate ? the worldly ruler of all he surveys, subject only to […]
Gospel Commentary: ‘Give to Caesar What Is Caesar’s’