VIEW FROM THE PEW To tweak that old adage about how March weather “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” the opposite is true about November this year. I’m not thinking about meteorology — wind, storm and surf stuff — but liturgy, the things we’ve been hearing in church. For the […]
Mary Adamski: An archives reveals its treasure
View from the pew The Vatican museum was the setting for a brief feature clip on a network television news show earlier this month, did you see that? A reporter strolled with the keeper of the keys through rooms full of historical artifacts, the works of great and not-so-great artists, sacred Mass vessels and treasure […]
Mary Adamski: When a loss for words is preferable
Being at a loss for words is not a trait prevalent in my family. We are storytellers and we love to give advice. People in power positions don’t know how lucky — or is it unfortunate? — they are that they’re not on our speed dial for input on remedies for the state of the […]
Mary Adamski: Saints alive!
Father Damien de Veuster, still celebrated, is only one of many heroes Kalaupapa produced Heroes and martyrs and saints, oh my. One of them is featured in a cameo further back in this paper. Some ring a bell from schooldays stories or “patron saint of” lists. Many may seem obscure to people caught up in […]
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