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By Anna Harvey
With 35 grandchildren, Stephen and Peggy Gabriel write and teach about the vocation of marriage. For Stephen Gabriel, his grandchildren serve as his legacy, what he calls “an eternal legacy.” He and his wife, Peggy, hope to model a holy marriage for their eight children and 35 grandchildren. Stephen and Peggy so desired to teach […]
Movies
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will be featured in a new documentary premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival; the film covers his near decade of travel, with visits to almost 60 countries. Titled, “In Viaggio” (“Traveling”), the film is directed by Gianfranco Rosi, an Italian-American documentary filmmaker who won the Venice Film Festival’s best […]
Columns
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
Where does God show up on your calendar? I pose this as a real question, not a rhetorical one. If someone found your planner on the bus or a stranger glanced at your calendar on the wall or a hacker gained access to your phone’s events, would they see any sign you were a Catholic? […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
There is a discussion (argument?) that seems to pop up around this time every year. With wedding season in full swing, people love to debate the merits of getting married young over deliberately delaying. Before we dig in, there is an obvious caveat: some people would dearly love to marry young, but have not yet […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
During his down time at work, a Minnesota surgeon often browses the New Yorker in the hospital library. One day he spotted its famed cartoon caption contest — a caption-less cartoon that calls on readers to submit captions and then vote on their favorites, to be published in the following issue of the magazine. The […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
The other week my wife and I went out on a date. After a hectic few weeks, our special time together had at last arrived. All around us at the restaurant were other couples, out on dates. About halfway through the dinner, I began to notice something. One of the spouses at a nearby table […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
In arranging to meet in September with Russia’s Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis evidently has two goals in view: peace in Ukraine and progress in Catholic-Orthodox relations. While both are highly desirable, it is far from certain this particular conversation will contribute much to accomplishing either. Francis and Kirill last met in 2016 in Havana — […]
National
By Marnie McAllister
Dr. Kassi Marshall, a physician, mother and member of the First Church of God in Chavies, Ky., is on a mission to bring safe drinking water to Perry County, where parts of the water infrastructure were destroyed in flooding that began July 26 in eastern Kentucky. “People need water,” she said in an emotional phone […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — For decades, St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill has been known for providing hospitality in its parish hall to people arriving on buses in Washington for the annual March for Life. This summer, the parish has similarly opened its parish hall doors on Wednesday and Friday mornings and afternoons to busloads of […]
Columns
By Fr. Jack Peterson
GOSPEL COMMENTARY Aug. 14, Lk 12:49-53 “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were blazing!” These words from Jesus in the 12th chapter of Luke’s Gospel are an intense challenge from our precious Lord to live our faith with passion and zeal. It is an alternative way to […]
