OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “On this Day of Prayer, I wish first to thank the Lord for the gift of our common home and for all those men and women of good will committed to protecting it … for the efforts being made to develop more sustainable agriculture and more responsible nutrition. … Finally let […]
Mary Adamski: It’s not the end of the world
VIEW FROM THE PEW I wanted to get this package in the mail then get home before Mother Nature comes back to slam us with another storm. That was the gist of my counter chat at the post office last week. “You can’t blame Mother Nature,” said the clerk. “Yeah, hard to deny climate change,” […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Discipleship is not easy
25TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; James 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37 Protestants, accustomed to reading the King James, or Authorized Version, of the Bible, often ask why Catholic versions of the Scriptures include the Book of Wisdom. The King James Version omits it, because Wisdom was one of several Old Testament discounted by the […]
Father George Cerniglia, Society of Mary (Marianists): From feeding cows to pastoring sheep
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING As a scholastic with the Society of Mary, we lived about 15 minutes away from the University of Dayton in Ohio where we attended classes. On the property was a farm run by the working brothers. Being a city boy, I think the superiors felt that I needed some hands-on life experience […]
Richard Doerflinger: Good, bad ideas on church reform
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY The ongoing discussion of clergy sex abuse has moved to proposals for church reform. The immediate need is for transparency and accountability. Charges against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, and those who allegedly covered up his abuses and advanced him to an advisory role at the Vatican, must be investigated and […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Imaging like never before
THE HUMAN SIDE “It ruined me for life.” This utterance is that of a participant in lay volunteerism. Disturbing images of working with the poor in a foreign country were burned into his memory — images of the gap between rich and poor that drive him to continue to serve the poor back at home. […]
Effie Caldarola: Mollie Tibbetts and our church
FOR THE JOURNEY Can you take any more bad news about the Catholic Church right now? I didn’t think so. The Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse and the cover-up by church officials, the disgrace of the former Cardinal McCarrick, the confusing letter by a disgruntled former papal nuncio to the U.S. in […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Sacraments for those with dementia?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I bring holy Communion to a local nursing home. Of the 66 Catholics there, many of them have no visitors. Those with dementia are asked whether they would like to receive the Eucharist, and if they say yes, I give them the host. It saddens me that Jesus suffered to give us […]
Sister Francine Costello, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet: The face of a loving God
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As an immigrant child who grew up in a war zone, I often felt nervous and fearful. When we wanted to visit family, our passes and other documents were inspected before we could cross the barrier. One day, a Japanese soldier came […]
Talk story: The gift of family
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The family is the foundation of civil society and of the church, and without strong families, both suffer. (Bishop Larry Silva, at the 2016 World Meetings of Families which Pope Frances attended in 2016) Last month, as residents scrambled frantically to prepare for the arrival of a category-5 storm, it was […]
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