VIEW FROM THE PEW If you haven’t heard the expression “a Hail Mary” used completely outside the context of our religion, you must not hear or read sports commentators who love that reference to a prayer as shorthand for a last-ditch athletic performance that’s nothing short of a miracle. Another expression that has morphed away […]
Effie Caldarola: In times of worry, Jesus offers the best advice
FOR THE JOURNEY When I was a little girl, my dad would tell me, “Don’t take your troubles to bed with you.” I was an inveterate worrier. I wanted the hallway light left on near my bedroom in our old farmhouse. Monsters seemed to lurk, not just under the bed but in every nook and […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus’ words endure
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts of the Apostles 3:13-15, 17-19; 1 John 2:1-5a; Luke 24:35-48 The Acts of the Apostles again furnishes the first biblical reading. Almost every Sunday in the Easter season features a reading from this book of the New Testament. In this reading, Peter preaches to the crowd in Jerusalem. Americans are […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The greatest of feasts
FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43 Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 This weekend the church celebrates the greatest of its feasts, the Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord — Easter. It is the greatest of feasts because it rejoices in the fulfillment of human salvation, fulfilled and completed when the Lord […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: “May I be buried in a non-Catholic cemetery?” And” I am dying and not sure if I need to confess again.”
QUESTION CORNER Q: Years ago, my parents purchased burial plots for my family in the local small-town cemetery where we lived. My family is not Catholic, and I wasn’t at that time either — so the cemetery is Christian, but not Catholic. I have since happily converted to Catholicism and am wondering if there is […]
Deacon Keith Cabiles: Cremation for Catholics: A brief history
RESTING IN PEACE For centuries, the Catholic Church forbade cremation, changing its official position on the practice only about 50 years ago. How did this shift happen, and why? Cremation in Catholic history Historically, the church’s views on cremation as a forbidden practice were formed through Christian belief in the physical resurrection of the body. […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What happened to creed wording? Can you be cremated?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I recall some time ago a change in the language of the creed we say at Sunday Mass to make it more inclusive. The new phrases were things like “For us and for our salvation” and “was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became one of us.” I realized recently, though, that […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Beginning our 40 days
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Genesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 The first reading, from the Book of Genesis, presents the familiar story of Noah. It is a study of contrast and of the consequences of this contrast. Noah was faithful, whereas his world almost universally was unfaithful. God protected Noah from doom, to which […]
Christina Capecchi: When an obituary becomes a prayer
TWENTY SOMETHING I’ve never had to write an obituary. I realize how fortunate that makes me. As a professional writer, I’ve imagined what it would be like to write one. Perhaps that’s morbid, but it’s a curiosity of mine. Of all writing forms, the obituary is the life summary, the final word. It conveys what […]
Sarah and David Herrmann: Zooming through Lent
EMBRACING FAMILY Wouldn’t it be nice if Lent “zoomed” by this year? Forty days seems like an eternity when we are sacrificing! We’ve had 12 months of waiting and praying thanks to COVID-19! Isn’t that enough?! For those around the world who live a life of constant suffering, they would be grateful if they only […]
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