QUESTION CORNER Q: A recent picture in a magazine showed Pope Francis signing a car that had been given to him. The cutline for the photo said that the pope had signed and blessed the car before putting it up for auction by Sotheby’s in London, with the proceeds going to charitable work. But I […]
Father John Catoir: Sadness
When I was little, I was sad because my parents wouldn’t buy me a pony. (We lived in an apartment.) When I was a teen, I was sad because I had pimples. As an adult, I became sad when I started losing my hair. You might say, sadness is part of the human condition. However, […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is Lord
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Often, Genesis is associated with its creation narratives. Actually, much more is included in Genesis. A major figure is Abraham. Historians and biblical scholars agree that Abraham actually lived long […]
Talk story: Sharing the journey with neighbors in need
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Jesus teaches us a different path. Do not classify others in order to see who is a neighbor and who is not. You can become neighbor to whomever you meet in need, and you will do so if you have compassion in your heart.” (Pope Francis, at the Meeting of Popular […]
Effie Caldarola: Plan for Lent
FOR THE JOURNEY When my son and his male cousins headed to college, my daughter’s gift to them was a colorful book called “A Man, a Can, a Plan,” by David Joachim and the editors of Men’s Health. Clever and presumably practical, it contained easy recipes for the man on his own. Realistically, however, a […]
Effie Caldarola: The debt we owe
FOR THE JOURNEY In Omaha, Nebraska, where I live, we have a feature writer in the local paper who covers the stories of refugees in our city. Her most recent article featured the trials of a family from Congo who spent years in a Tanzanian refugee camp hoping for a better life. After extreme vetting, […]
Father John Catoir: Atheism
Recently, I came across an amusing cartoon depicting two snowmen; one was rebuking the other. The caption read, “Don’t be absurd! Of course, no one made us! We evolved from random snowflakes.” Poking fun at Darwin’s theory of evolution is considered irreverent in some circles, but I take delight in it. His theory gave so […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Do we now go straight to heaven?
QUESTION CORNER Q: What does the church teach about what happens after someone dies? The reason I bring it up is that often when I attend a Catholic funeral, I hear the priest say in a homily that the deceased is now in heaven and suffering no more. But how does that fit in with […]
Richard Doerflinger: Assisted suicide: It’s about all of us
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Even after working on an issue for decades, you can come across one thing that shifts your perception of what it’s about. That happened to me recently on the issue of physician-assisted suicide, thanks to an intrepid Swedish investigator named Fabian Stahle. Stahle saw support growing in his country for a […]
Sister Maria Joseph Petrill, Daughters of St. Paul: The life of an evangelizer
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There was once a lady who came into our bookstore and told us that our children’s books had helped her family very much. Every night she would read stories on the faith or the saints to her children. Her husband, who was […]
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