Deacon created shepherd’s crosier for Bishop Brennan September 3, 2019By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary Bishop Brennan’s new crosier was crafted by a longtime friend who imagined what King David’s crosier may have looked like.
Communicate with integrity September 1, 2019By Archbishop William E. Lori Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary Winning an argument or venting on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook are not good reasons to muckrake, to search out and publicize the faults of people one disagrees with.
In secret you will be repaid August 29, 2019By Brett Robinson Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary Recollection is the practice of gathering those things together again to see the self in full.
What all Hispanics lost in the tragedy of the El Paso massacre August 22, 2019By Moises Sandoval Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary Reports from around the country show that all of us, whether Mexican Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Central or South Americans or Caribbean peoples, feel less safe, whether our roots in lands now in the U.S. go back, as mine, 325 years, or whether we are recent immigrants.
Friday abstinence for vegans/ Parents and nonchurch wedding August 21, 2019By Father Kenneth Doyle Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Father Doyle fields questions about Friday abstinence for vegans and what parents might do when their children want a nonchurch wedding.
Heroism and priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia August 20, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference The heroes of Dachau’s priest-barracks found a way to keep sacramental life alive, in full fidelity to the Church’s tradition. Is that impossible in Amazonia? Or elsewhere?
We need to have the open arms of Christ August 15, 2019By Patrick Sprankle Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary We need to be a better nation, too, and, with arms open like Jesus on the cross, be there to offer hope and healing and hospitality to our neighbors, our family in need.
One cheer for George Will’s ‘The Conservative Sensibility’ August 7, 2019By Bishop Robert Barron Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire Will gets some important things right, but he gets some even more basic things quite wrong.
Did Apollo 11 mission make Archbishop Borders bishop of the moon? July 16, 2019By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary In 1969 he led the Diocese of Orlando, which included the launching pad for the historic Apollo 11 mission.
‘One small step’ 50 years ago advanced human knowledge July 15, 2019By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary, Feature Fifty years after men first walked on the moon, humans continue to seek something beyond us.
Holy days of obligation/Catholic-Jewish wedding July 10, 2019By Father Kenneth Doyle Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Regarding the feast of the Ascension, in most of the United States that celebration has been transferred to the following Sunday.
‘Yesterday,’ today and forever June 26, 2019By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary The Good News that Jesus brought us is timeless – more timeless even than musical classics such as “Yesterday” or “The Long and Winding Road.”