They’re rightly saints because they gave the Church what she needed at the time.
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
In Space as on Earth: God, science and ‘Star Trek’
In the world of “Star Trek,” God remains a lodestar of human striving.
You’re gonna make it after all, Mary Tyler Moore
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was ground breaking in so many ways.
One Little Boy in Blue
Gettysburg the largest battle of the Western hemisphere was fought a hundred and fifty years ago this week Between the North and South.
Fear of the Future
The beasts have an advantage over us when it comes to suffering.
My Father, Guilt and Shame
My father was the most amiable of men I used to laugh at him in conversation with guests He rsquo d say to one uncle quot Yes you rsquo re right quot A moment later he would say to another of a quite contrary opinion quot I can rsquo t disagree with that quot If I later challenged him o
The Final Frontier
Can you still say the Pledge of Allegiance Can you recall the wording of the Boy Scout Oath or the Girl Scout Can you recite an Act of Contrition Whether we understood it at the time in childhood we committed these avowals to memory as a way of preparing for adulthood The Pledge of Allegiance r
Bungling the Body and Blood
Grandma you want to play Mass quot quot Play Mass How do you play Mass quot I hated to think this about my own Grandma Klein especially as she was staying several days with us that summer but she was a little slow She wasn rsquo t good at playing Candy Land and in summer who wanted to pl
Trinity Sunday and Father Kapaun
All Saints Day 1950 was properly joyful in Korea U S Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun celebrated four field Masses that day for the soldiers in the Third Battalion of the Eighth Calvary Regiment Camped almost on the Chinese boarder the men believed the war all but won All Souls is a somber da
Pentecost: The Gift
No less a theologian than Saint Thomas Aquinas lamented that when it comes to understanding the Holy Spirit our problems begin with the name Summa Theologiae I 36 1 Think of all things that can be called holy or how often one might speak of a spirit Even with the two words conjoined the min
