“God is love, and he wants to abide in you.” (1 John 4:16) The storms of life are passing, but God’s love is unchanging. Stone Age people thought that the weather was God’s way of expressing his various moods. He was either resting or raging. The Hebrew Prophets rejected this idea. They knew from revelation […]
Richard Doerflinger: ‘It’s no use reasoning with you!’
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Have you had arguments in which the other person would not concede your point, no matter how many compelling facts and reasons you brought to bear? That is most common in partisan politics, where mutual distrust and character assassination seem to have replaced rational debate. But it happens on moral issues […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Which Ten Commandments are Catholic?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Recently I read an article stating that the “Catholic” Ten Commandments are different from those given to Moses. According to this article, Catholics deleted the Second Commandment — about no idols or graven images — and then split the last one into two in order to make up for that deletion. (It […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Hope in 2018
THE HUMAN SIDE When Isaiah speaks of a bear and cow being neighbors and a baby sitting aside a viper (Is 11:1-9), what message is he sending for us in 2018? At first look his examples symbolize peaceful coexistence. That which seems unlikely is now likely; direct opposites uniting as one. The derivation of the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: ‘Glory to God in the highest’
WITNESS TO JESUS: CHRISTMAS, 2017 This is the prepared text of Bishop Silva’s homily delivered at the Christmas Mass during the Night at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace and at the Christmas Mass during the Day at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. If a man is preparing to propose marriage to a […]
Mary Adamski: This awesome confluence of connections
VIEW FROM THE PEW Finally, in the afterglow of our holiday most frenzied, we had a quiet day or two to contemplate the tree lights and the manger scene. Our spinning orbit of shop, bake, sing, cook, shop more, gather, party slows. In the temporary calm we can absorb the point of it all: God […]
Talk story: Giving hospitality to angels
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Peace to all people and to all nations on earth! Peace, which the angels proclaimed to the shepherds on Christmas night, is a profound aspiration for everyone, for each individual and all peoples, and especially for those who most keenly suffer its absence.” (Pope Francis, “Message for World Peace,” Jan. 1, […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Speaking of agoraphobia
QUESTION CORNER Q: I enjoy reading your columns in our diocesan newspaper. Recently you responded to a person who is concerned about missing Mass due to agoraphobia. (Editor’s note: Agoraphobia is defined as an extreme or irrational fear of crowded spaces or enclosed public places.) As a psychiatrist, I wish you would have added that […]
Brother Gary Morris, Marianists: Divine minstrel
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There are students who sometimes take my class not necessarily because they want to be an actor, but because they need to fulfill a fine arts credit. How do I encourage the shy ones? I keep challenging them. I tell them that […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The perfect example
FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY (A selection of readings is possible for this feast. These comments refer to one set of readings.) Genesis 15:1-6, 21:1-3; Hebrews 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Luke 2:22-40 The church always celebrates the Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s Day as the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. […]
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