When a person dies by suicide, those left behind often find themselves asking the same painful question: “What could I have done to prevent this?” In most...
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Like a robin returning after winter, I am set to begin another trip ‘home’ to see my dad. He lived at home for a few years following the death of...
We need to weed through the pros and cons of marijuana use before rushing into a decision on its legalization. Sounding Boards are one person’s take on a...
The young woman shared her difficult history, her crippling grief. Then she asked, “So what’s a chaplain again?” Hospitals, especially hospital emergency...
A good intervention is … …planned. “The alcoholic can do a pretty good job of saying how wrong you are and who served him too many drinks,” says Father William...
Even if you don’t work in a parish, you might find yourself affected at work by your manager’s alcoholism or addiction. Just as family members are affected by...
A priest’s alcoholism becomes the parish’s affliction, too. Every week or so, Father Ray toted a suitcase past the rectory offices. “Dry cleaning,” he’d say...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Father Benezet Bujo...
Banning the Big Gulp isn’t enough to tip the scales in America’s obesity epidemic. Gluttony is the only one of the not-so-magnificent seven that is literally a...
When you’re on chemo, the Stations of the Cross take on a whole new meaning. Growing up Catholic in the 1970s, I remember the older women in our parish...
