Setting Hearts on Fire: A pilot project for evangelization
Evangelization needs to be practical, if is to succeed in inviting people to embrace Christ and live the Gospel more wholeheartedly. A working definition might be: Evangelization is a radical call to do things differently, in very concrete and practical ways, in order to set people’s hearts on
For Hell or for Glory: The legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg
To hear the name Gettysburg is, for almost any American, to immediately remember famous men. First, one thinks of the legendary generals on both sides of the enormous Civil War, or perhaps of Abraham Lincoln, delivering the brief but masterful Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery to ho
Feed My Sheep: A Catholic reflection on the Food Assistance Convention
For people of faith, responding to hunger is about neither politics nor humanitarianism. Rather, feeding the hungry is primarily a response to the question posed by Jesus to all of his followers: “Who do you say that I am?” (Mk 8:29). It is about the belief that the food we eat is both G
Prose and Prayer: Teaching the art of spiritual autobiography
Teaching the art of spiritual autobiography
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Some say it all started with Bill Clinton’s feel-your-pain politics, others with Oprah’s daily pseudo-psychology. Still others say it began with MTV’s “The Real World,” the first in that ingeniously banal and now omnipresent genre called reality television.Whenever it s
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Eucharist at the CenterRe “Higher Learning,” by John R. Wilcox (9/9): We Catholics should insist that our educational institutions promote Catholic beliefs, starting with the belief that Jesus makes himself present to ordinary people in the celebration of Eucharist and that this is a goo
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A New Gilded Age
The right to a just wage is rooted in the transcendent dignity of every human being.
Faith in Focus
The Old Gym: Recalling a Catholic school classic
Here’s a wonderful, redolent, crucial part of our Catholic childhoods.
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On the Margins
When retired Bishop Walter F Sullivan died this past December countless thousands mourned the loss of a beloved spiritual teacher who had presided over the Diocese of Richmond Va for 29 years The Good Bishop is a fitting tribute to this man who fought for prison reform opposed the death penal
Have Courage! Take Risks!: Two new books challenge priests and everyone.
Part of the excitement in those daily homilies Pope Francis has been delivering is that here is the pope saying things many of us have been saying to one another but have seldom if ever heard from the pulpit or read in the diocesan press On June 20th the pope urged Jesuit journalists to attack…
Boys’ Lives
Readers looking for a nice conventional story about serving others and how fulfilling that can be must look elsewhere Jay Sullivan rsquo s Raising Gentle Men Lives at the Orphanage Edge is real and serving others is complicated Sullivan spent two years between undergraduate and law school teach
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Finale
“This was not my first fané,” he wrote.After a meal, our Stephen loved to sailinto the dining room, holding aloftthis last course: ice cream, whipped cream, and meringue.“Its presentation is a jaw-dropper…love to do it for a newcomer.”That night he chose a deeper bowl
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Becoming Clean
As a child I saw the world in peculiar ways as children tend to do influenced partly by the two powerful forces of television and the Bible Growing up in the 1960s I was fairly certain from the movies and TV shows I watched that a good portion of humanity died in quicksand so I…
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Broken, Bad, Redeemed?
“Breaking Bad” has meant far more than entertainment to its legions of viewers.
Where the Spirit Moves You
You don’t “make” a retreat. If anything, the retreat makes you.
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Unlovable Characters: Transition, loss and love in the films of Noah Baumbach
Transition, loss and love in the films of Noah Baumbach
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Nukes, No More? Alliances Wanted; Winning Isn’t Enough
Generation Faith
Dialogue of Note: How an interfaith rock band deepened my love of Catholicism
Just by playing music, we found that interfaith exchange arose naturally.
Signs Of the Times
Quebec’s ‘Imposed Secularism’
Quebec’s proposed Charter of Quebec Values imitates the “unjust” imposition of antireligious secularism in France, said the Canadian constitutional lawyer and religious freedom expert Iain Benson. “The recent proposals from Quebec mirror those from France, where both countrie
News Briefs
On Sept. 16, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl celebrated a Mass for consolation and healing, praying for the victims of the rampage at the Washington Navy Yard and asking God to “heal the wounds in our society so that we can prevent tragedies such as we have just witnessed.” • Sister Angél
Curial Reform: Cardinal’s Report Comes Due
The pope gave the cardinals a mandate to advise him in the “government of the universal church.”
Pope Francis Leaves Media, Fellow Seekers, Marveling
Pope Francis’ blunt talk sent shock waves through the Catholic Church in the U.S. and the world.
Flood Victims ‘Still Have the Lord’
Mary Jurgensmeier, a member of St. Peter Catholic Church in Greeley, Colo., said she knows people in her community who have lost everything. “We still have the Lord,” said Jurgensmeier. “We will never lose him.” Jurgensmeier is one of thousands of Colorado residents who have
Vietnam Catholics Seek Support
Bishop Paul Nguyen Thai Hop of Vinh Diocese on Vietnam’s north-central coast, has appealed for “international support and solidarity” following violent attacks against Catholics in Nghe An Province on Sept. 4 that left at least 40 people seriously injured. Bishop Nguyen Thai Hop ha
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