13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24; 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the first reading. When this book originally was written, the plight of God’s people was not good. They had experienced very much in their history. Among these experiences was the loss of […]
Mary Adamski: Infrastructure ponderings
VIEW FROM THE PEW Infrastructure. Bah humbug. The word has become an expletive in my life, a yardstick to measure how I’ve failed to tackle basic maintenance, a possible scary signal that I’m losing it. I mutter it when I navigate through a room that has become the graveyard of abandoned projects, because whose fault […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Perfume a serious matter. Fallen-away Catholic kids.
QUESTION CORNER Q: Recently, in answering a reader’s concern about “perfume fests” in her parish church on Sundays, you offered your opinion that “perfume terrorism is not universal.” Let me tell you that it is, in fact, universal; there are people who are suffering in every parish. I have had to leave Mass early to […]
Effie Caldarola: Fire, drugs and greed
FOR THE JOURNEY It may have been a discarded cigarette thrown into a rag bin. No matter how it started, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City in 1911 took only 18 shocking minutes but changed history. The factory employed mostly young immigrant women, who labored long hours in a sweatshop for poverty-level […]
Christina Capecchi: Finding God in the wilderness
TWENTY SOMETHING The sense of place and pull to the wild that inspired Nick Ripatrozone’s new book are tucked in his very name. The rip-roaring surname is the name of a mountain town in central Italy, which the 40-year-old writer has visited. Like his ancestors, Nick is drawn to the mountains, living with his wife […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Like a mustard seed
11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34 The first reading for this weekend’s liturgy is from the Book of Ezekiel, who is regarded as one of the great Hebrew prophets. Not interested in themselves, but only in relaying the revelation of God, the prophets rarely left any biographical details […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How can God abandon God?
QUESTION CORNER Q: What was the meaning of Christ’s words from the cross when he said, “Father, why have you forsaken me?” (Leicester, United Kingdom) A: Both Matthew and Mark indicate in their Gospel accounts that among the last words of Jesus on the cross were the following: “My God, my God, why have you […]
Effie Caldarola: The power of words, when necessary
FOR THE JOURNEY In Padraig O Tuama’s book, “In the Shelter,” he tells a story about a young woman traveling through Europe in the 1980s. In France, she meets a man and falls in love for the first time. They agree to meet at an embassy in Rome the following week, and on the appointed […]
Talk story: The potential of migrants and refugees
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY We need to find a path forward that is rooted in solidarity and fraternity and that respects the rights and dignity of every migrant as a child of God made in his image.” (Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), June 2, 2021) On June […]
Father Sebastian Chacko, diocesan priest: Having a global outlook helps
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald God has blessed me. My health is pretty good. I have been to three countries in Africa, various parts of India, Western Samoa and American Samoa, and Hawaii. After my retirement at the age of 68, I went to New Zealand and […]
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