Remembering who they were May 25, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window During this time of social distancing, as we wear masks and stay away from people we love, it’s important to remember that we are doing this because life matters. Because love matters.
Food faces, wildlife encroaching, an unexpected call, my dinner of the week, and more (7 Quick Takes) May 22, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Do you see faces in food? It happens to me all the time.
Ask St. Rita for help with an impossible situation May 22, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window St. Rita is patron of several things, including parenthood and marriage difficulties, but what she’s best known for—and perhaps most needed for today—is impossible causes.
“Do my llama slippers need an Instagram account?” and other pandemic questions May 21, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I started thinking about unexpected questions that only seem to come up when you’ve been living under stay-at-home orders for weeks on end.
Strange wording in ‘Hail, Holy Queen’/ Who created COVID-19? May 21, 2020By Father Kenneth Doyle Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Father Doyle fields questions about the “strange wording” in the “Hail, Holy Queen” prayer and who created COVID-19.
A bittersweet moment for the Class of 2020 May 19, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Heartbreaking as this experience is for the Class of 2020—and it is—I also find the Class of 2020 intriguing and inspiring.
Touchpoints with a saint’s life May 17, 2020By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary, Uncategorized As we mark the centenary of the birth of Karol Wojtyla, who became St. John Paul II, it caused me to reflect on moments of my life that intersected with the man who was pope for a great chunk of my life and career in Catholic journalism.
Feast on yeast, Mother’s Day treats, closet reorganization, and more (7 Quick Takes) May 16, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I finally got my hands on some years, and I made homemade pizza this week.
Belief and life May 15, 2020By Father Joseph Breighner Filed Under: Commentary, Wit & Wisdom We do not live in a morally neutral universe. Good and evil, life and death, do contend with each other.
An inward pilgrimage with Mary May 14, 2020By Archbishop William E. Lori Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary May we indeed persevere, in this and in every time of trial, so that one day we may reign with Christ in the presence of Mary Our Queen.
Discipleship – There’s an app for that! May 14, 2020By Father T. Austin Murphy Jr. Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Diamonds in the Rough Rather than connecting some pop culture offering of this moment, I want to promote The Chosen because I want to promote Jesus and discipleship.
The one who loved us first May 12, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church God is love. He loved us first – and loves us forever. He knows us best, seeing deep within us to all we are and all we can be. He sees us and loves us fully. He holds us – and the past, present and future – in his hands.
