Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.
Kerry Weber
Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship. Kerry is the author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press) and Keeping the Faith: Prayers for College Students (Twenty-Third Publications). A graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously worked as an editor for Catholic Digest, a local reporter, a diocesan television producer, and as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
Xavier Basketball Players Find Help from a Sister
As we ve discussed here previously the ministry of women religious has expanded over the past decades Today s New York Times includes an excellent example of the way in which one sister uses her many talents as an academic adviser Xavier University s Division I student athletes Sister Rose Ann Fl
Is Celibacy Partly to Blame for Sexual Abuse by Clergy?
Cardinal Christoph Sch ouml nborn conservative Archbishop of Vienna and an ordinary to Austria s Eastern Rite Catholics said this question should be considered as part of an ldquo unflinching examination rdquo of the possible causes of the scandal From The Times These included ldquo the iss
Diocese Seeks Cash to Pay Irish Victims
From the Associated Press DUBLIN AP — A Roman Catholic diocese at the center of Ireland s child-abuse scandals appealed Tuesday to its parishioners to cover some of its more than euro 10 million 14 million in bills to victims and lawyers Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns the southeast Irish di
Confession via phone. For a fee.
I can t say I always look forward to participating in the sacrament of Reconciliation Still I go Not as often as I should perhaps But I try There have been times when I ve felt that the priest barely listened to me or he reacted too harshly to what I had to say A reminder I suppose that whi
A Saint from Sudan Offers Hope
I first heard of St Josephine Bakhita during college when I saw her depicted in a stained-glass window in the main chapel on campus Intrigued by the image I read a bit about her life Born in 1869 to a wealthy family in Darfur she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders endured brutal treatment by
Catholic Education for Students With Special Needs
An article in The Washington Post features good news for parents who hope to find Catholic schools capable of providing services for children with disabilites Forty-two percent of Catholic elementary schools in the United States had a resource teacher to help students with special needs in 2008-09
Catholic Health Care and the Quarterback
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has served as a spokesperson for St Vincent rsquo s Catholic hospital in Manhattan since 2006 and he plans to continue this work mdash but from now on he rsquo s doing it for free The New York Post reported that Manning will no longer accept compensation f
Beer, Baseball and the Archbishop
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York spoke to a packed bar in midtown Manhattan Monday evening for the city s first Theology on Tap lecture of the year His topic of choice was the papacy in honor of the feast of the Chair of Peter and the talk was filled with a number of interesting and entertain
Outsourcing Drama Education
High-school drama departments often are known for being creative mdash although not necessarily their hiring methods But Providence High School a Catholic institution in Burbank California recently attracted attention from the Los Angeles Times after it chose to hire two professional actors ra
