QUESTION CORNER Q: There has been a lot in the news lately about people who identify with the gender opposite the one listed on their birth certificate. Some take hormones of the opposite sex; some even have surgery to “change” their sex. What is the Catholic Church’s position on such transgender people? Is it OK […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Is there no respect these days?
Is a new age of disrespect upon us? Are we experiencing growing impertinence, insolence and contempt? This leads us to ask what exactly respect is. Our best answer can be found in the transfiguration of Christ. To escape the crowds, Christ, Peter, James and John ascend a mountain in search of peace and quiet. Once […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s mercy triumphs
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 With deep faith and faith-filled excitement, the church continues the celebration it began a week and a day ago of Easter, the Lord’s resurrection and final victory over death and sin. As is the case in almost every Mass of this season, the first […]
Effie Caldarola: A volunteer’s experience
ON THE JOURNEY The Jesuit Volunteer Corps was young — and so was I — when I first arrived at a remote Alaskan village to teach school at a Jesuit boarding school for Native Alaskan students as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. There were no cellphones yet, and the internet did not exist. […]
Talk story: Salt, light for the homeless
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Jesus does want us to come at least every Sunday so that he can physically embrace us with his love. But he also wants us to be salt and light once we leave here as well. We do that by sharing our bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and homeless, […]
Carolyn Woo: Who put Christ on the cross?
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY The crucifixion of Our Lord is almost always depicted in art showing the torture from asphyxiation on the cross, the nails, the wound made by the spear, the crown of thorns or the beating on the way to Calvary. While these are indeed the implements that took the life of Jesus, they […]
Father Sebastian Kumar Soosai, Missionaries of Faith: The secret of our success
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald In Mark’s Gospel, we hear Jesus saying “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” (Mk 16:15) This call to go out to preach, to proclaim and to evangelize keeps me going in my priestly ministry. Filled with […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Did Jesus feel abandoned?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When Jesus was dying on the cross, according to the Gospel, he cried out, “My God, why have you abandoned me?” Why was he saying this? Did he really feel that his Father had abandoned him? (Coxs Creek, Kentucky) A: Half a century ago, when I first began to think about the […]
Father John Catoir: An Easter blessing
I wish you a Happy Easter, and I send you this blessing with my love and prayers. May the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints — and whatsoever good you do or suffering you endure — cleanse you of all your sins […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Raised to new life
EASTER SUNDAY Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9. Today the Church celebrates the greatest day of its year, Easter, the feast of the Lord’s Resurrection. These readings are proclaimed at Masses during the day on Easter itself. (On Holy Saturday, the day preceding Easter, the church will have celebrated the Easter […]
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