Three years ago this week, on Aug. 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an African-American teen in Ferguson, Mo. Within 24 hours of the shooting the Ferguson uprising began. On this episode, we talk with the Rev. Broderick Greer, an Episcopalian priest in Memphis, Tenn., who boarded a bus and […]
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Generation Faith
Hate public speaking? Here’s why you should lector anyway
Speaking in front of a hundred people did not come naturally to me.
Posted inFaith, News
Chaplain offers Mass aboard ship for Marines killed in crash of Osprey
Navy chaplain Father David J. Hammond said Mass in the USS Bonhomme’s Star of the Sea Chapel for three Marines who died when their aircraft went down off the coast of Australia.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A God worthy of belief
The book grapples with the biggest of issues: the meaning of life, the problem of evil and the value of praying to a God who seems only rarely to intervene in human affairs.
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis: Vacation time should be prayer time
Summertime can and should be a time for extra prayer, a moment of peace that allows Christians to savor the joy of their relationship with Jesus and find new strength to reach out with love to others, Pope Francis said.
Posted inEspañol, La Palabra
Medicina en tres preguntas.
La medicina de Dios no es lotería para calmar la economía, ni pastillas para calmar los nervios.
Posted inFaith, News
Solanus Casey’s remains exhumed, relics collected ahead of beatification Mass
The remains of Father Solanus Casey were exhumed Aug. 1 as part of the canonical process that precedes the saintly Capuchin Franciscan friar’s beatification Mass in November.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I volunteered at a summer camp for kids with disabilities—here’s what I learned about real freedom
I used to think that relying upon others somehow betrayed weakness. That changed when I worked at this camp.
Posted inFaith, News
Notre Dame great Ara Parseghian was a supporter of school’s Catholic faith
Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian died Aug. 2 at age 94.
Posted inFaith, News
Islamic school seeks to steer sons of militants to new path
At the Al Hidayah Islamic boarding school, founder Khairul Ghazali wants to prevent the sons of Islamic militants from becoming the next generation of Indonesian jihadists.