Effie Caldarola: FOR THE JOURNEY A member of my faith-sharing community devoted one year to buying nothing. Nothing, at least, that wasn’t a necessity. She bought food, of course, and if her printer ran out of ink, she would deem that a necessary purchase. She paid her utility bills and her mortgage, but she added […]
Christina Capecchi: Searching for peace with help from a sage
TWENTY SOMETHING It is the book that somehow surfaces when you need it most — manna for the multi-tasker, solace for the stressed. It is the book you stock up on to give to others, to slip in Christmas stockings, to pay it forward. It is the book that spiritual directors recommend again and again: […]
Got enemies?
Kathleen T. Choi: IN LITTLE WAYS The danger with reading Scripture is coming across passages that hit home — hard. Recently, I read Luke 6:27-38 about loving your enemy and doing good to those who hurt you. The verses challenged me. Who are my enemies, and how do I treat them? The first enemies I […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: In God we trust
32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Kings 17:10-16; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 The First Book of Kings furnishes this weekend with its first reading. Political governance, in the minds of the ancient Hebrews, was not the chief function of their kings. Rather, assuring the nation’s faithfulness to God and to the law of God given […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Receiving Communion from the priest
QUESTION CORNER A few weeks back, I responded to a man who wrote that he was bothered when he saw a family deliberately avoid the Communion line of a lay extraordinary minister of holy Communion in order to receive the host instead from a priest. I noted that it’s the same Eucharist no matter who […]
Father John Catoir: Evolving church part of tradition
We have to also keep in mind that we have seen that the church can develop and change with time. The Second Vatican Council taught us that this change is only possible in our traditions, not in the church’s solemn dogmas.
Lisa’s catechism corner: What is envy, and how can you fight it?
Church teaching explained to you YOUCAT*: “Envy is sadness and annoyance at the sight of another’s well-being and the desire to acquire unjustly what others have. Anyone who wishes other people ill commits a serious sin. Envy decreases when we try to rejoice more and more in the accomplishments and gifts of others, when we […]
Vatican opens homeless shelter for men
By Nicole Pellicano Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican opened the “Gift of Mercy,” a shelter for homeless men, just a few hundred yards away from St. Peter’s Square. Housed in a Jesuit-owned building, the shelter was created by and is run with funds from the papal almoner, who has taken a variety […]
Heralding back: Nov. 6, 2015
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Nov. 5, 1965 Brother J.J. Kennedy, F.S.C.H., coordinator of the Damien Memorial High School Carnival which will be held this weekend, November 4, 5, and 6 on the school grounds at 1401 Houghtailing Street shows Mrs. Margaret Ohara the huge layout for games, activities, food booths, plant […]
Bishop Silva’s Arlington lecture, ‘Who am I to judge? …’
The bishop’s lecture is titled “Who Am I to Judge? Divine Mercy and Diabolical Deception.” Bishop Silva explained that the talk is based on the homily he gave on Divine Mercy Sunday earlier this year.
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