OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (Jn 10:10, Feast of the Good Shepherd) From Easter to Pentecost, the joyful words “Jesus is Risen, Alleluia” resound around the world wherever Catholics are gathered. The Paschal season provides Christians the opportunity to experience the hopeful joy that comes […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Does a prenup invalidate a marriage?
QUESTION CORNER Q: A friend is in a relationship where his fiancée won’t sign a prenuptial agreement because she thinks it would make the marriage invalid. It could be grounds for annulment. “For richer and for poorer” etc. What is the canonical opinion here? (Sydney, Australia) A: When we speak about a prenuptial agreement, or […]
Greg Erlandson: When heroes let us down
COMMENTARY My wife took Christ off our living room wall the other day. It was a postcard image of a mosaic created by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. She couldn’t bear to have it up. Rupnik is a remarkably gifted artist. His mosaics adorn chapels and buildings from the St. John Paul II National Shrine in […]
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe: Welcome home, new Catholics
CALLED TO HOLINESS Becoming a Roman Catholic was one of the best decisions I ever made, and certainly the most life-changing. But in truth, I had only a vague notion of the deep waters I was wading into. What would have been helpful over the past 40 years? Here are a dozen things I wish […]
Talk story: From darkness to light
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We proclaim that he, the Lord of our life, is ‘the resurrection and the life’ of the world…May this Easter be for each of you, dear brothers and sisters, and in particular for the sick and the poor, the elderly and those experiencing moments of trial and weariness, a passage from […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is our Good Shepherd
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 2:14a, 36-41; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10 Readings from the Acts of the Apostles frequently occur during the Easter season. They clearly show not just life in general in the first Christian community but quite expressly they reveal the special place among the early Christians of the Apostles, and that […]
Sarah and David Herrmann: Parenting is not for wimps!
EMBRACING FAMILY Parenting is not for wimps. Sleep-deprivation. Long hours in the office. Long hours at home. Diapers, diapers and more diapers. Coughs and runny noses. Trips to the urgent care. Our small children cry and want hugs because they want us with them. Later they cry because they don’t want us there and […]
Sister Scholastica Mondejar, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: It was just like yesterday
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald For 21 years, from 1973 to 1994, I taught at St. Catherine School in Kapaa on Kauai. Strangely, even though that was almost 30 years ago, it felt just like yesterday when I had the opportunity to visit Kapaa again last month. […]
Effie Caldarola: O Life! O Death! O Mystery!
COMMENTARY My friend volunteered in a program called NODA — No One Dies Alone. It was not meant to walk the long journey through terminal illness with someone. It was, in fact, quite literal. At the hour of death, none of us should be alone. The hospital might have a suffering patient who was living […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Where did Lazarus go before Jesus raised him?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Regarding the people Jesus raised from the dead, where were their souls while they were dead? (Location withheld) A: Among the many miracles Jesus performed as part of his public ministry, some of the most remarkable include his raising several recently-deceased people from the dead. In the Gospels we read of the […]
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