‘Rosca de Reyes’ gives a sweet ending to the 12 days of Christmas.
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Posted inFaith, Podcasts
What’s it like during the first year of priesthood?
This week’s guest is Rev. Brendan Busse, S.J. Fr. Busse is associate pastor of Dolores Mission in Los Angeles and a contributing writer for America. We spoke to him about his most recent article, “The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest.” Fr. Busse, who wanted to be an architect […]
Posted inFaith, News
Monks killed in Algeria, depicted in ‘Of Gods and Men,’ will soon be beatified
The decree for their beatification should be published sometime in January, Trappist Father Thomas Georgeon said.
Posted inFaith, News
Bishops in Kazakhstan say no Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics
The statement from the Kazakh bishops can be interpreted as a response to Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia.”
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic program for abandoned babies may have saved Edmonton newborn
It was the first time a baby has been abandoned under the Angel Cradle program since it began in Edmonton in May 2013.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Epiphany: Is there really no such thing as a free gift?
Gift giving is always an exchange. But here is an exception that may yet prove the rule.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Discovering my priesthood as a Catholic woman in Protestant seminary
I stopped running from the ordination question and started wrestling with it.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How can we cure cataracts on the soul?
It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Living into Mystery: Karl Rahner’s Reflections on his 75th Birthday
“The center of my theology? Good Lord, that can’t be anything else but God as mystery and Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, as the historical event in which this God turns irreversibly toward us in self-communication.”
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The case for taking up the Ignatian examen in the New Year
Along with the special communication of Scripture, God reaches us through the experience of a given day.