Suffering meets consolation in the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. For the sake of his sorrowful passion . . . It was 3 p.m. and it was time...
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Catholics are less than two percent of the population of Norway, and there are only nine priests in our diocese. That means one does not have much choice of...
Where is the hope in Lent? Isn’t Lent about dying?” I could feel the tension as our RCIA conversation shifted from Christmas to Easter. We were talking about...
My introduction to being a lector came through the invitation of another parish minister—not the pastor or another lector but the choir director. She...
Six years ago, I was at a Fourth of July party when a woman I know handed me a photocopied sheet. “I’m asking everyone to pray this novena for my fiancé’s...
Just when I thought I’d outgrown mentors, a friend introduced me to David Stang. His enthusiasm for his favorite subject, his sister Dorothy, is contagious...
I once thought that to be Catholic meant to eat meat. It wasn’t a holiday without Mass, Polish sausage, and turkey or ham. Even my family Christmas cookie...
By Joseph Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012) Pope Paul VI argued that excessive economic inequalities were a “danger to peace” and that political power...
When President Dwight Eisenhower laid the cornerstone of the National Council of Churches building in New York in 1958, David L. Holmes stood in the crowd of...
By Elaine Pagels (Viking Press, 2012) Seven-headed dragons, locusts with human faces, and armies of monsters could all be elements in popular fantasy novels...
