Q Recently, some new priests were ordained for the Legionaries of Christ. I had thought that this order was being dissolved due to the scandals created by its founder, Father Marcial Maciel, who committed everything from fraud to pedophilia. Why is the order continuing when its founder was a sociopath whose life was a lie […]
Father John Catoir: A great prophet and voice of the church
One of the priests I most admired in the years after my ordination was Msgr. John Tracy Ellis. As a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America, he was known to many as the “dean of American Catholic historians.” During the early 1960s when I was studying at Catholic University for my doctorate in […]
Mary Adamski: The greatest of these is charity
Expect another “ta-DAH” announcement any day from city hall about yet another solution to the homeless problem. Oops, do I mean homeless issue? Has problem become politically incorrect? I don’t expect another of those city government lightning strikes to replace tents with flower planters, or haul the last pitiful possessions of people away as trash; […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: My ex-husband remarried. May I?
Q I am divorced and, even though both my ex-husband and I are Catholic, we were married not in the Catholic Church but by a justice of the peace. Recently, my ex-husband remarried, and the ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest. I am wondering whether my ex-husband applied to the Catholic Church for a […]
Viriditas: Sister Jessie Kai, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
‘My grace is enough for you’ St. Damien Catholic Parish in central Molokai includes the mission churches of St. Vincent Ferrer of Maunaloa town to the west of the island, and the churches which St. Damien de Veuster himself built — St. Joseph Church at Kamalo and Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Church at Kaluaaha […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Not us
I’ve met five convicted murderers in my life. What was striking about these men was how ordinary they were. They weren’t anything like Michael Corleone, Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They were real human beings, not creations designed to sell books or movies. Made up murderers are usually serial killers, criminal geniuses or skilled assassins. […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Biking across Iowa for the heart and soul
When Father Joe Schneider climbs onto his 27-speed Trek Pilot and dips its front tire into the Missouri River, his summer vacation has officially begun. Then he pushes off and bikes across Iowa. The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, better known as RAGBRAI, began in 1973 when two reporters from the Des Moines […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sixth Sunday of Easter
Successors to Peter and the Apostles Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 The Acts of the Apostles once again this Easter season furnishes the first reading. In the readings earlier in this season, the identity of the Apostles has clearly been given. The Apostles, absent Judas of course, had exercised the very power […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Heaven without my children?
Q Is the happiness of heaven dependent on human factors? Specifically, when I die and — hopefully — get to heaven, how could I be eternally happy if my children were not to make it with me? (The way things are right now, that is a distinct possibility.) How could I ever be at peace […]
Father John Catoir: Juggling the difficulties of life with grace
Life has been falsely compared to a juggling act, where the juggler tosses many balls in the air with ease and keeps them all circulating magically until he or she sets them down in perfect order. Real life is not at all like that. In fact, in real life, most of us will make mistakes […]
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