The grace to bloom where we’re planted April 21, 2021By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary His life was enriched by a community that chose him, not the other way around. It took an investment of time — well more than a decade — to reap the benefits.
Lent’s promise in bleak times February 18, 2021By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.
History’s greatest inaugural speeches January 14, 2021By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary Inaugurations speak to our innate need to start over from time to time, to express new hopes and fears, to realign our priorities and make sure the path we’re walking on is the right one.
Woe to those who gossip September 23, 2020By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary Gossip may be shared between two people, let’s say by a tweet and reply or a Facebook post on another person’s wall, but it is shared with the knowledge that both parties’ followers will see it. What is most pernicious is that it’s often shared not in spite of that knowledge but because of it.
The legacy of St. John Paul II’s encyclical ‘Evangelium Vitae’ at 25 April 17, 2020By Elise Italiano Ureneck Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Respect Life A culture of life is always within reach and is built one moment and decision at a time.
Our Christian calling and social distancing March 17, 2020By Elise Italiano Ureneck Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary The global phenomenon of imposed isolation provides an important moment to call to mind the many people who experience “social distancing” as a daily, lived reality — most often not of their choosing.
Biblical wisdom for expectant, ‘older’ mothers September 19, 2019By Elise Italiano Ureneck Filed Under: Bible, Commentary, Guest Commentary There is a special kind of humiliation (and humor, if you’re a good sport), reserved for pregnant women who skew a little bit above the average age of moms in this country.
Send in the clowns February 22, 2019By Elise Italiano Ureneck Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary A good comedian helps an audience to recognize common absurdities, inconsistencies and hypocrisies in any given cultural moment. Their real genius is helping audiences to recognize the ones in which they also take part.
