Q: My daughter is gay and has been with her partner for more than 10 years. Both are cradle Catholics and are practicing today. They used to belong to a parish where the priest was wonderful and baptized their son in the church, but since then, they have moved and that priest has been transferred […]
Viriditas: Father Harold Meyer, Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
It must be God’s way I joined the Army when I was 18, during the Korean War. After about a year and a half later, I asked myself, “What am I going to be doing after the Army? I will be free and not committed to anything.” In the military chapels there were always magazines […]
Carolyn Y. Woo: Working toward God’s abundance for all
In the Catholic Relief Services guest dining room in Baltimore we have decorated the left wall with pictures of grains, plants, trees, water. The inscription reads: “We shall see the bounty of the Lord.” On the opposing wall, we have the words from Psalm 27:13, “in the land of the living.” It is accompanied by […]
Stephen Kent: Rendering God superfluous
The U.S. Air Force no longer requires “so help me God” to be part of the oath taken upon the enlistment of airmen or the commissioning of officers. A toll-taker on the Garden State Parkway is suing the state of New Jersey because she claims a supervisor told her to stop saying “God bless you” […]
Manaolana | Karen Osborne: Peeling off the labels and expanding self-placed limits
In school, I used to hate running even more than I hated spiders or math. I couldn’t run fast in elementary school, so I was always one of the last kids to cross the finish line during gym class, a feat for which I earned incessant teasing instead of a gold medal or nifty ribbon. […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Procrastination as a costly condition
According to the American Psychological Association, about 20 percent of Americans can be described as chronic procrastinators. Physically it manifests itself in laziness, idleness, indifference and nonchalance. It also shows itself in indifference to improve one’s character, distaste for the spiritual and failure to cultivate new virtue. Becoming indifferent and not cultivating new virtue is […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May others, besides priests, do blessings?
Q: At a family discussion, the following question came up: Can anyone other than a priest or deacon do a Catholic blessing? (Baltimore) A: As your question would suggest, aside from certain blessings reserved to a bishop (e.g., the consecration of the sacramental oils at the chrism Mass during Holy Week), it is a priest […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Help here and now
Our family had a serious health scare recently. We’re not completely out of the woods yet, but prospects are good. My prayer during this time has been pretty basic: “Help! Please help!” “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis deals with anxiety like mine. Lewis points out that when God asks us to submit patiently to […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion | 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s law is one and inseparable
Exodus 22:20-26; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 The Book of Exodus provides this weekend with its first reading. Exodus is among the first five books of the Bible, the books attributed to Moses. So in ancient Jewish tradition, Exodus came from Moses. Therefore, in a most special way, it was seen as the very word […]
Talk story | Office for Social MInistry: Reaching out, offering hope
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace … where there is despair, let me bring hope.” (Prayer of St. Francis) With a lava flow threatening, these words of St. Francis summed up why folks gathered in Avery Hall of Sacred Heart Parish in Pahoa for a Sunday potluck town meeting at noon on Oct. […]
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