THE MARRIED LIFE My mom used to say it was the Lord’s sense of humor that she had to cook for a large family since she never liked to cook. She had the one-hour rule for dinner. That is, it had to take one hour or less to prepare. She didn’t want to spend all […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What is a good Catholic Bible? What if my family isn’t with me in heaven?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My wife realized that my Bible is not Catholic when I could not locate the Book of Sirach in it. What is a good Catholic Bible, with a contemporary translation from Greek? (My ultimate preference would be a Catholic Bible with the Old Testament translated from Hebrew and the New Testament from […]
Katie Prejean McGrady: The inconveniently necessary Lent
WINDOW SEAT WISDOM I hate Lent. I don’t like the color. I’m much more a green and white than a purple and gray type of gal. I don’t like the music. Everything is in a minor key, somberly plodding along like we’re all walking to our grave. I don’t like the length of the season. […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The death of Kobe: grieving on social media
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS There continues to be a lot of debate on the merits of using social media for reaching the religiously unaffiliated and growing our members as evidenced by a recent article in the National Catholic Register titled “Catholics reflect on 10 years of the Good, Bad and Ugly of social media.” On the […]
Deacon Will Friese: The Lord didn’t want me … I thought
I AM A DEACON I’m a deacon. Who would ever have thought that would happen?! Well, it did, just five short years ago. This wasn’t something I ever planned to do. I had already retired twice, first from the Air Force in 2003, and again from federal civil service in 2014. I always figured that […]
Father Mario Raquepo, diocesan priest: The only choice? To serve God
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There is no other choice. The only choice for me is to serve God. Because when your intention and main purpose is to serve God, he gives you the strength and the courage to do so. Thus, up until now, 40 years […]
Talk story: War, migrants and prayers for a new year
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Peace is a profound aspiration for everyone, for each individual and all peoples, and especially for those who most keenly suffer its absence. In order to find that peace, they are willing to risk their lives on a journey that is often long and perilous, to endure hardships and suffering, and […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Be salt and light
5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 58:7-10; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; Matthew 5:13-16 The Book of Isaiah’s third section is the source of this first weekend’s reading. Scholars believe that this section was written perhaps in Jerusalem for the Hebrew remnant that had returned from Babylon. This assumption puts the third section of Isaiah at a […]
Mary Adamski – The beatitudes: a path to true happiness
VIEW FROM THE PEW Familiar words about fostering peace, justice and human rights spoken at a recent church service held a crowd enrapt and silent, and later exuberantly noisy when those sentiments were reflected in historical spiritual songs. It was only fitting that we focused on the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Christina Capecchi: At the pond: reckoning with winter
TWENTY SOMETHING The snow has begun. It is expected to last 18 hours, piling nine inches high and crippling weekend plans. The streets are emptying, the collective dash to the grocery store completed. But here in our cul-de-sac, the party is about to begin. One of the dads will start shoveling, another will join in, […]
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