OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “This farm is important because … we try to create hope … We connect with land, people, children. We connect with God. God is not up in the sky. He is here in everybody.” (Luigi “Gigi” Cocquio, Hoa Aina O Makaha, Oahu) Hopefully all are enjoying summer blessings in Hawaii nei, […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why a deacon if a priest is present? Is it wrong to long for heaven?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Often, I have been at a Mass where the deacon reads the Gospel, which is fine. But then, sometimes, the deacon goes on to give the homily while the priest watches. This disappoints me and makes me feel that the deacon is overstepping his bounds. Why should a deacon, rather than the […]
Greg Erlandson: In defense of funerals
AMID THE FRAY “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.” (Mercutio, “Romeo and Juliet”) In the past two and a half months I’ve been to four funerals. Friends. A spouse of a friend. A child of a friend. It has been a cumulative sense of mortality and loss set against […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Death awaits all of us
19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19; Luke 12:35-40 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the first reading for this weekend. Nighttime was when the Exodus began, the Hebrews’ flight from Egypt where they had been enslaved. They saw God as their protector, assuring that their escape would succeed. Moses […]
Christina Capecchi: The path of inspiration
TWENTY SOMETHING During his down time at work, a Minnesota surgeon often browses the New Yorker in the hospital library. One day he spotted its famed cartoon caption contest — a caption-less cartoon that calls on readers to submit captions and then vote on their favorites, to be published in the following issue of the […]
Mary Duddy: Family life and river rafting
THE MARRIED LIFE Marriage and family life is not like a scenic cruise going down a river, where you are a spectator enjoying the view. No, it’s more like a white-water rafting trip, where rapids come and go, you need to paddle hard, and you could easily fall out of the boat. At the beginning […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why can’t we use a closed church? Can a non-Catholic be a cantor?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I am having a hard time understanding why a Catholic church closed by a bishop can no longer be used for Masses, weddings and funerals. For more than 100 years, this particular church — built by my great-great-grandparents — was considered sacred ground. Now my grandson wants to get married in […]
Greg Erlandson: Giving birth to a new movement
AMID THE FRAY In the 50th year since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand, that same court has judged that case wrongly decided and kicked America’s most neuralgic issue back to its elected representatives. Pro-lifers have responded with joy that a goal so long desired has been attained. But whether […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Catching God at the ballfield
FAITH AT HOME As a mother of five boys, I have spent countless nights at baseball fields, but never have I glimpsed God in the dugout until tonight. Can I confess that I was bored by my own son’s game — bored only because his team was winning and he’d finished pitching, so my attention […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s door is never closed
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first story. As with other passages in this marvelously profound religious book, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah sadly is often overwhelmed by arguments about where these cities were in Middle Eastern geography millennia […]
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