From 1982: “When unemployment and nuclear weapons sound the notes of despair and dread in our land, many Catholics too may find the sober lessons of Lent more instructive than ever this year.”
Easter
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Let’s Do Away with Lent
“Isn’t it odd that 2,000 years after the Resurrection the emphasis in Christianity is still more on the cross than on the empty tomb?” wrote Frank Moan, S.J., in 1982.
Posted inFaith
7 things you never knew about fasting
Fasting, in addition to being obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, remains a common Lenten practice for many. But there are nuances to fasting that are not always well-known.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
It is so easy to forget we are loved. That’s why God gave us his Son — and the church.
Whatever else sin is, it is always a forgetting that we are loved by God. And the more we sin, the more we forget.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis on Easter: ‘The risen Christ is hope for all who continue to suffer.’
The message of Easter is not a mirage or a magic formula, Pope Francis said. But it does offer hope to a world suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic and many sources of conflict.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Watching the trial of Derek Chauvin during Holy Week
If Christians, especially white Christians, vilify Derek Chauvin, we absolve ourselves of our own complicity in the racist structures that permitted him to place and pin his knee on George Floyd’s neck. Surely it is not us, Lord?
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Easter Sunday: What a flower can teach us about Jesus’ death (and resurrection)
Louise Glück’s poem, “Wild Iris,” begins with a description of death, the sort of death something made of earth and growing there might recount if it could speak.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Read: Pope Francis explains each day of the Easter Triduum
When we go to Mass, we do not go only to pray, no: we go to renew, to bring about again, this mystery, the Paschal mystery.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis will use reflections and drawings from kids for this year’s Stations of the Cross
The Vatican’s Stations of the Cross will feature texts and drawings from a troop of Italian scouts, two group homes for disadvantaged young people and a parish that serves people who are differently abled, the homeless and survivors of domestic abuse.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil
The dispossession Christ experienced in his crucifixion is an act of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.