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Remembering a great priest and leader
Posted on February 27th, 2015
Father William Byron remembers the lessons of life and leadership from a giant in American Catholic culture, Father Theodore Hesburgh, who died last week.
Sacrament, not psychoanalysis
Posted on February 26th, 2015
John Garvey points out a good reason to go to confession: it’s good for us. God has made his mercy available. Why not take advantage?
Jailing families: U.S. should pursue prison alternatives for migrants
Posted on February 26th, 2015U.S. bishops have warned about the potential for abuses in family detention centers, and now abuses are occurring. An editorial argues immigrant children should live without barbed wire fences while their legal status is being sorted out.
Both political parties play immigrants as pawns
Posted on February 23rd, 2015
Between the recent executive orders on deferred deportation for immigrants, a judge’s blockage of the plan and entrenched congressional opposition, Father Gus Puleo believes Republicans and Democrats share blame for failing to reform the system.
Child’s bus ride leads to deep life lessons
Posted on February 19th, 2015
A children’s book subtlety draws the link between worship and service, observes writer Effie Caldarola. One lesson: reply to a child’s plea of “I want that” to “You have this.”
Living like a strong, confident girl
Posted on February 19th, 2015
Karen Osborne wonders why teen girls give up doing things they love. She condemns the pressures put on boys and girls to do and like things based on gender, which denies opportunities for positive experiences.
Using the long reach of prayer during Lent
Posted on February 17th, 2015When thinking of big numbers of people — 114 million who watched the Super Bowl or the millions who will watch Pope Francis in Philadelphia — you can touch them and really help them with your prayer, writes Jesuit Father William Byron.
‘Consubstantial,’ and other challenges to memory
Posted on February 17th, 2015
It’s been a few years but Maureen Pratt still struggles to recall the changed prayers of the Mass. She writes on some ways to shore up a faltering memory.
Marching for life in all its phases
Posted on February 12th, 2015
Moises Sandoval reflects after this year’s March for Life that America needs to do a better job of building economic and social conditions to have and raise children.
The strangers who care for us
Posted on February 10th, 2015
Before Lent begins next week, Carolyn Woo reflects on how there really are no strangers. Whether it’s the people who care for us or those we don’t know at all, we’re all part of God’s family.