THE HUMAN SIDE How do we keep our minds healthy in light of all the disturbing events in our world? How do we successfully deal with senseless crimes, starving children, devastating hurricanes, forest fires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? Some suggest we turn off the news totally or at least periodically. This is true. Whenever travel […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Where do ‘single Catholics’ fit in?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Where do single people “rank” within the Catholic Church? Many times we are asked to pray for those who are married or who have followed a calling to the religious life — but how many times has anyone in any parish been asked to pray for those who are single? Are we […]
Effie Caldarola: Choose to hope
FOR THE JOURNEY What is the nature of hope? Are we born to be either a pessimist or an optimist? Or is it up to us to decide? At a day of reflection, a Sister of Mercy discussed the environmental threat to our planet. Then she asked us to stand up and choose a side […]
The Servants of Skid Row
A band of friars and nuns from Brazil finds ways to feed LA’s homeless By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — Friar Benjamin of the Most Holy Trinity walked down Towne Avenue in Skid Row, one hand wheeling an ice chest filled with oranges and bottled water, the other clutching plastic bags […]
Bishops condemn shooting at synagogue, all ‘acts of hate’
By Julie Asher Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The U.S. Catholic bishops stand with “our brothers and sisters of the Jewish community,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Oct. 27 after a horrific shooting earlier that day in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life Synagogue, described as a hub of Jewish […]
Greg Erlandson: Getting real about our challenges
AMID THE FRAY Tracking the Catholic zeitgeist these days can be a dizzying experience. It helps to have a sense of history, and perhaps a sense of irony as well. Once upon a time, it was liberal Catholics who were upset at the pope, who wanted more democracy in the church, who railed against the […]
Father Keating, centering prayer figure, dies at 95
By Catholic News Service SPENCER, Mass. — A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 3 at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start in the 1970s. He died Oct. 25 at the abbey. He had been abbot there for two […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Isn’t Communion the ‘complete’ Christ?
QUESTION CORNER Q: As an extraordinary minister of holy Communion, I have something bothering me. As we give out Communion, we say “body of Christ” for the host and “blood of Christ” for the chalice. But aren’t we actually offering the “complete Christ” — body, blood, soul and divinity — under each species? (Ogallala, Nebraska) […]
Mike Carotta: Committed to Grace
COMMENTARY While we expose the shameful, sinful and criminal, might we also acknowledge those who have been faithful? Our meeting down the hall has ended. A separate group of priests who are on retreat here in Indianapolis have invited us to join them at their closing Mass. Standing behind them in my pew in the […]
Effie Caldarola: Half a dress
FOF THE JOURNEY When our youngest daughter shopped for clothes for high school dances, her father would often comment, “I hope that dress is on sale for half-price, because it’s half a dress.” It was a joke, but it made his point. Our youngest child was pretty with an eye-catching figure, and she hit the […]
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