Sidney Callahan

Voters need to look at a presidential candidate rsquo s religious beliefs and practices to make sound political choices nbsp Yes I know in America thanks to God and the Constitution no religious test can be applied for any office nbsp nbsp But once a candidate is running it is important to

Transgendered persons as an emerging minority group are becoming newly visible in the medis nbsp Unfortunately this attention usually arises from the fact nbsp that people are being attacked bullied excluded and even killed nbsp The transgendered population now join homosexual and lesbian i

Healing prayer is reviving among Catholics nbsp A long time leader in the healing ministry ex Dominican Francis McNutt has recently published ldquo The Practice of Healing Prayer nbsp A How-to-Guide for Catholics rdquo nbsp He also reports that his Christian Healings Ministry center is exp

On a spectacularly fine day last week I was taking my dog Sunny for her morning walk nbsp Down the hill and across Warburton Bridge we went so I could glory in the beautiful view of the Hudson River nbsp In the middle of the bridge on the opposite side an attractive young male also seemed raptl

Recently a N Y Times Magazine cover story described a pregnant woman rsquo s decision to select i e destroy by fatal injection one of the fetal twins she was carrying nbsp nbsp Her doctor approved her choice since with her other children and her age she did not want to care for more than one

Archbishop Dolan of New York has suggested that it would be a good thing to restore distinctive Catholic religious practices nbsp He praises the bishops of England who have reintroduced meatless Fridays a penitential practice which once set Catholics apart from other groups The argument is made

nbsp From my living room window I see the flag waving in the VFW park above the nbsp monument honoring the war dead nbsp On Memorial Day we hear the rifles shots followed by taps nbsp In the same park our local peace group meets regularly to protests against our country rsquo s current wars I

I am reading a recent book by Biblical theologian Gary A Anderson on the changing ideas of sin in Judaism and early Christianity nbsp He analyzes scriptural texts using many detailed scholarly sources nbsp His intriguing nbsp findings are that the concept of sin in Judaism changed from earlier

My first Corpus Christi procession nbsp Surprise I went to the 9 00 a m mass instead of the 12 00 and found out our parish was having a Corpus Christi procession through the town nbsp After fifty plus years as a Catholic convert this was a first for me although I have participated in the Pax