The family members pointed out that the “final Hawaiian choice for Damien in 1965 was very thorough, with the widest possible popular support.”
Saints
Posted inLetters, Magazine
Letters to the Editor: September
Letters on discerning out of religious life, Julian of Norwich and Catholic schools in the time of coronavirus.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What does it mean when we say the Assumption of Mary is a miracle?
We use the words “mystery” and “miracle” not to say that science has been stumped but rather to express the expansive claim that an event makes upon us.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Blessed Stanley Rother’s Oklahoma roots
How a state with just 3 percent Catholics shaped the first U.S.-born martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church
Posted inFaith, Television
Nicholas Black Elk and the quest for justice
This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
We have a story to tell: Indigenous scholars, activists speak up amid toppling of Serra statues
California Native people prayed at a makeshift altar before activists took down the statue of Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan credited with spreading the Catholic faith but also seen as part of an imperial conquest.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis emphasizes the need for unity and prophecy in the church
Peter and Paul, Pope Francis noted, provide valuable role models to encourage us toward unity and prophecy.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Julian of Norwich believed ‘All will be well.’ Would she say so today?
All will be well and all will be well: even now?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
California bishops say protesters ‘failed the test’ of history in toppling Junipero Serra statues
While Serra is credited with spreading the Catholic faith across what is now California, critics say he was part of an imperial conquest that beat and enslaved Native Americans.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Who is St. Junipero Serra and why are California protesters toppling his statues?
The statue of St. Junipero Serra is the latest to be either defaced or forcibly removed by people protesting against monuments that depict the country’s colonial and racist past.