Christmas is a time for giving–and it’s a perfect time for fair trade. Fair trade allows you to give twice: first in buying a product and then in...
Articles
One day a friend of mine called a classmate from college with whom she had not talked in years, only to learn that the woman’s 7-month-old baby had...
The smarty-pants answer is that it happens all the time. There’s no security check at Communion stations. Ushers seldom rack up more than a couple of Communion...
“Listen! I am standing at the door knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me...
The Christmas my daughter was 6 and my son was 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary. There were...
We Christians believe that this child is the hope seeded deep in the psyche of all those who waited for the day of the Lord in Judaism, though they still wait...
Advent is the liturgical season of vigilance or, to put it more mundanely, of waiting. During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our...
Tom Beaudoin looks at our “branded” economy and says it’s time to integrate who we are with what we buy. This text is an excerpt from Tom...
After the Wall Street wipeout, in a world full of hurt, we’re still our brothers’ keepers. With the carnage on Wall Street con- tinuing at a jaw...
Parishes can’t always anticipate impending disaster, but there’s plenty they can do to prepare and protect themselves from the worst. Imagine...
