As a young college student, I found myself drifting away from the church. I had a thousand questions, and I found institutional religion unappealing. If it were not for a piece of writing that spoke to my heart, by Cardinal John Henry Newman, I don’t know where I’d be today: “God has created me to […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why the name change when parishes merge?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Why do names of churches have to change when parishes merge? I understand that they might not want to have a St. Mary’s/St. Joseph’s, but the new names are nothing like what we were used to; they are more complicated and difficult to remember. (Latham, New York) A: Names of churches do […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Prosperity: The hope of America
THE HUMAN SIDE Everyone loves to hear that we are going to be made prosperous. The reason is found in the derivation of the word “prosperous” coming from the Latin “spes,” meaning hope. Much of America’s future hope is based on people having a reliable job, equitable financial means for living comfortably, access to education […]
Talk story: Encounter and accompany those most in need
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Samaritan acts with true mercy: he binds up the man’s wounds, transports him to an inn, personally takes care of him, and provides for his upkeep. All this teaches us that compassion, love, is not a vague sentiment, but rather means taking care of the other to the point of […]
Commentary: Discipleship in the era of social media: Jesus doesn’t have a Twitter Account
STEWARDSHIP By Melissa Pavlicek, Paul Pancho and Father Ed Popish, SSCC Special to the Herald “Follow me” (Mt. 9:9). Jesus invitation is not a request to follow him on Twitter. Jesus does not have a Twitter account. There are no daily twitter feeds or hashtags to follow him. There is no Facebook page where we […]
Father Santhosh Thottankara, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: The gifts of family prayer
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald In my family circle there are 24 priests and one bishop. We belong to different congregations, some being in the foreign missions and others belonging to the diocese. My older brother, Father Viju, for example, is a diocesan priest and the secretary […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Rejoice in the light of Jesus
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Genesis 12:1-4a; 2 Timothy 1:8a-10; Matthew 17:1-9 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first biblical reading. As its name implies, Genesis reveals the divine origin of life and the divine plan in the forming of the Hebrew race. First and foremost, Genesis is a splendidly vivid revelation […]
Christina Capecchi: Tending to our common home
TWENTY SOMETHING The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge. That counsel stuck with Amy Hereford, who grew up on a 10-acre […]
Mary Adamski: LOL
VIEW FROM THE PEW The perfect, definitive model for a meaningful Lent. I’ve got it. Hang in there, I’ll share it. In my first take of this column, I took hundreds of words to get to the punchline. Wise and witty words they were. Sure to lose readers the more I wandered on through my […]
Effie Caldarola: Our refugee family
ON THE JOURNEY On a recent Sunday, I delivered fresh produce to the Syrian refugee family my Catholic community sponsored this year. As I parked outside the apartment building, eager little faces were watching for me from the second-floor window, and soon the three oldest children of the family dashed from the door below to […]
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