VIEW FROM THE PEW To tweak that old adage about how March weather “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” the opposite is true about November this year. I’m not thinking about meteorology — wind, storm and surf stuff — but liturgy, the things we’ve been hearing in church. For the […]
Greg Erlandson: A tale of two popes
AMID THE FRAY There’s a quote attributed, probably falsely, to Mark Twain that observes, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” I suppose it is a sign that I’m getting older, because I’m starting to hear the rhymes in a lot of the current debates in the church about papal leadership. Almost 40 years […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: The value of travel
When a student at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was asked, “What did you fear in traveling to a foreign country most?” he replied, “Money!” He was a student taking part in Saint Vincent’s program for students going abroad to enhance their education. No doubt, handling foreign money is challenging until one learns to […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The present order will one day end
33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30 The Book of Proverbs provides this weekend’s first reading. This book was composed when both the Holy Land and the lives of its inhabitants, God’s chosen people, had experienced massive changes as a result of the military conquest of the Holy […]
Father Kenneth Doyle What’s the correct ending of Our Father?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Protestants have their own form of the Lord’s Prayer, ending with, “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.” I read in a book by a Catholic author, first published in 1911, that “such an addition was not uttered by Our Lord. Catholics consequently do not use it.” […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Homily — The demands of love
WITNESS TO JESUS Here is the text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 28/29, delivered at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Vancouver, Washington I love ice cream. I love sunny days. I love the Seahawks. I love my home. I love God. I love my neighbor. The way […]
Sister Grace Marie Tom, Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and Perpetual Adoration: A ministry of presence
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “Don’t go back,” my sister said when I told her I would be returning to the missions. I am very close to my brother and my sister, but it is my sister who takes me around whenever I return home. She was […]
Christina Capecchi: No baby, but still giving thanks
TWENTY SOMETHING Even before she was married, Emily Stimpson Chapman asked for baby prayers. “I’d be in an antique store buying little trinkets for the wedding decorations, and I would be asking strangers: Pray that we have a baby!’” she said. “If I’ve talked to you over the past two years, I’ve asked you to […]
Father John Catoir: Private conscience and the church
The late Bishop Fulton Sheen explained that there are two kinds of truths: “Outer truths, which we master, like the distance of the sun from the earth; and inner truths, which master us; for example: God is merciful to the penitent. Inner truths affect a person’s destiny, like a vocational calling; they are matters of […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Do prayers change God’s mind?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I’m confused about something and would be grateful for your help. Does prayer change God’s mind? Can someone be moved to the head of the line if we pray hard enough? (Cuba, Missouri) A: To answer this question, we first need to admit our limitations. I cannot pretend to know the mind […]
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