While absent Catholics have not yet stampeded back to Mass, Pope Francis has rekindled interest in the church almost solely on the basis of his immensely...
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A few years ago, on an incongruously cushy tour bus with plentiful opportunities for shopping, I made a pilgrimage to Assisi. We had Mass every day and visited...
Parish Name: Our Mother of Sorrows Location: Tucson, Arizona Founded: 1958 Diocese: Tucson Pastor: Msgr. Thomas P. Cahalane Number of Parishioners: 8,410...
Some of America’s best-known musicians have come from its least-known places. “I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)” by Aretha Franklin. “Land of...
For nearly 2,000 years, the chair of Peter has been occupied by a motley crew of saints and sinners. In the course of teaching church history in a seminary, I...
c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) One was a man who shook the very foundations of the Roman Catholic Church by ushering in revolutionary reforms through...
Edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid (Paulist, 2013) Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment is a collection of essays that is the product of a...
It was Mom’s birthday and I was 12 years old. I made her a card that said “I love you mom!” and when I gave it to her I said, “Thank you for being my mom and...
I grew up in the arid West: the land of prairie, tumbleweed, and newly-constructed subdivisions. I remember, as a kid, noticing the paradox between public...
Each year on Good Friday we listen to the account of the events surrounding Jesus’ death: the trial, the boisterous crowd, the journey to Golgotha. The...
